The statement said that thanks to the devoted service of Kim Jong Il socialist Korea has achieved great successes in its struggle for frustrating the moves of all hues of hostile forces against the DPRK, defending the sovereignty of the country and achieving national reunification.

Kim Jong Il has devoted his all to protecting the dignity of the country and the sovereignty of the nation and dedicated himself to the independent reunification of the country and nation, it noted, and continued: He formulated the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--, the ten-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo set forth by President
Kim Il Sung as the three charters for national reunification and provided the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it.

The successes achieved by the Korean people in their struggle for defending the sovereignty of the nation and achieving the reunification of the country greatly encourage the world progressive people in their struggle.