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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Saturday carries a signed article on the occasion of the 11th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation."

In the work Kim Jong Il put forward the five-point policy of the great national unity, which reflects the firm determination and will to achieve the great unity of the entire nation and reunify the country in our generation without fail by preserving and steadfastly carrying forward President Kim Il Sung's outstanding idea of the great national unity and his feats, rich experience and the tradition established by him.

The keynote of the above-said five-point policy is that the great unity of the nation should be achieved on the principle of national independence under any circumstances, all Koreans should unite under the banner of patriotism, the banner of the country's reunification, the inter-Korean relations should be improved, they should struggle against foreign forces and the traitors to the nation who are in league with them, develop dialogue and visit each other and strengthen solidarity and alliance.

The above-mentioned policy fully reflects Kim Jong Il's steadfast view on the nation and fixed will for independence as he has always led the cause of the country's reunification and the cause of the great national unity in line with the President's idea and will and solved all the problems by relying on the nation's efforts, the article notes, and goes on:

By setting forth the above-said policy Kim Jong Il made it possible for the Koreans to vigorously accelerate the movement for national reunification with an ideological and theoretical weapon for developing the President's cause of the great national unity on a new higher stage and accomplishing it.

The said policy helped all Koreans desirous of patriotism work hard for reconciliation and unity, converting the movement for national reunification into a nation-wide patriotic movement involving compatriots in the north and the south and abroad and a mass movement embracing people of broad strata irrespective of ideology, political view and party affiliation.

Thanks to the struggle of all the compatriots keenly aware of their responsibility and duty as a driving force for the movement for national reunification, there came into being June 15 All-Korean Committee, an umbrella organization for the nationwide movement for national reunification, and organizational solidarity and unity grew strong among Koreans in the north and the south and abroad.

All the successes made in the struggle for the great national unity and the country's reunification are a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the five-point policy of the great national unity put forward by Kim Jong Il.

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