Bangladesh standing committee for remembering Kim Il Sung meets
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the Bangladesh standing committee for remembering the President Kim Il Sung was held at an assembly hall of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh on June 26.
The meeting decided to hold gathering, photo exhibition, film show and other functions on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his demise.
DPRK politics, history study group formed in Venezuela
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- A group of the Maracay normal university for the study of the DPRK politics and history was inaugurated in Maracay, Venezuela, on June 23 on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Three-point charter of Korea's reunification supported abroad
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Yugoslav and Ethiopian organisations joined in the international signature campaign for supporting the three-point charter of Korea's reunification.
The signature paper was signed by Milisav Binkovic, chairman of the Kragujevac Labour Movement of Yugoslavia, on behalf of 1,000 members on June 16 and by Abdi Kedir Mohamed, general manager of the International Taekwon-do Physical Training Club of Ethiopia on behalf of over 400 trainees on June 23.
Lotte Hotel unionists taken away
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- South Korean police walked away more than 1,100 unionists of Lotte Hotel in Seoul who had waged a sit-in strike for more than 20 days from June 9 in demand of wage hike, according to radio no. 1 from Seoul.
Over 2,000 policemen were sent to crack down upon the unionists who built a barricade and resisted persistently, throwing furniture.
Cambodian committee inaugurated to remember Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The Cambodian committee for remembering the great leader generalissimo his excellency Kim Il Sung was inaugurated in Phnom Penh on June 29.
At the instance of Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, deputy prime minister Kong Sam Ol was elected chairman of the committee.
The committee decided to hold colorful events including rally, film show and photo exhibition and widely introduce his immortal exploits through media on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Best way of national reunification
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The proposal for reunifying the country by federal formula is the quickest and most reasonable way of achieving national reunification, says Minju Joson today in a signed article.
This proposal calls on the north and the south to establish regional autonomy respectively, recognizing and respecting the socialist system in the north and the capitalist system in the south within the framework of a unified federal state,the article notes, and goes on:
The proposal is a fair and aboveboard way of reunification as it is suited to the specific conditions of Korea, reflects the ardent desire and will of the nation and does not bring any burden to anyone.
It is quite impossible to make the differing systems one as none of the two sides is willing to abandon its ideology and system. Under this situation the country cannot but be reunified by federal formula in any case.
The ardent desire of the nation for reunification will come true if the reunification of the nation is achieved to rejoin the severed blood ties of fellow countrymen though the two differing systems do not become one.
If the country is reunified by federal formula, it will not entail any serious aftermath and "expenses for reunification" as it happened in the country which had been reunified by way of uniting two systems.
Moreover, this reunification formula will allay the worries of individuals and organisations over losing their material and mental wealth after reunification and provide for the protection of the rights and interests sought by foreign capital invested before it.
The unique way of reunifying the country by federal formula based on the conception of one nation, one state, two systems and two governments was clearly indicated by the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo announced by the great leader President Kim Il Sung two decades back, the article stresses.
Paper on Kim Il Sung's exploits performed in work for national reunification
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Il Sung is the sun of the nation, lodestar of national reunification and benevolent father who performed immortal feats in the cause of national reunification by devoting all his life to the country and the nation, says rodong sinmun today in a signed article.
The article says: At the very outset of the country's division he defined national reunification as the supreme task of the nation and consistently pursued the line of building one Korea, the line of reunification. He wisely steered the nation's struggle for national reunification, thus escalating the movement for national reunification into a nationwide movement.
The line of national reunification set forth by him shows the only just way of establishing the sovereignty of the country and the nation, exalting its dignity and honor and achieving its prosperity.
Right after liberation he roused the nation to a nationwide struggle to establish a unified government in Korea and paved the way for dialogue and negotiations between the north and south, bringing thaw in their frozen relations, and led the nation to adopt a joint declaration and agreement, thus opening a new phase in the movement for national reunification.
He set forth three-point charter of national reunification in which a fundamental principle and way of national reunification were laid down, and thus provided the nation with a guiding principle which should be held fast to in carrying out the cause of national reunification.
The three principles--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--are the cornerstone of national reunification which clarifies the main position and way of solving the reunification issue by the efforts of the nation itself in conformity with the will and interests of the nation.
The ten-point programme of great unity of the nation for national reunification is a political programme for achieving the unity of the entire nation and strengthening the driving force for national reunification.
The proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo serves as a blueprint which offers a picture of the unified state and ways of building it.
The great leader rallied the entire nation under the banner of the great national unity to prepare the driving force for national reunification and further strengthened it.
He let those with strength dedicate strength, those with knowledge contribute knowledge and those with money donate money and thus enabled all the compatriots from all walks of life in the north, south and abroad to make a tangible contribution to the cause of national reunification out of patriotism.
Indeed, the exploits performed by the great leader in the cause of national reunification brilliantly recorded in the history of the nation will be immortal.