The work, published on August 1, Juche 80 (1991), clarifies principles and ways for achieving the great unity of the entire nation, which is a prerequisite to national reunification and its essential contents, on the basis of a scientific analysis into the situation of the reunification movement early in the 1990s.

The article says that the work has powerfully encouraged all the Koreans in their sacred struggle for national unity and the reunification of the country for the last 18 years.

All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad have waged a vigorous struggle to shatter every desperate move of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad through national cooperation, actively realizing unity and organized alliance as required by the work and great landmark successes have been made in this course to be registered in the history of the nation, the article notes, and goes on:

General Secretary Kim Jong Il has thoroughly carried out the last instruction of the President for national reunification. Thanks to his outstanding leadership and patriotic will there took place the historic Pyongyang summits which culminated in the adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for its implementation. This ushered in a new era when Koreans are working hard to achieve the independent reunification of the country by their concerted efforts. This meant a shining victory of the idea and line of the President for achieving great national unity and a striking manifestation of their great vitality.

The historic work serves as an immortal banner for the Korean nation to invariably hold aloft in the nationwide struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, the article notes, urging all Koreans to uphold the north-south joint declarations, programmes for independent reunification in the new century provided by Kim Jong Il, as a banner for winning sure victory, thoroughly defend them and forcefully propel their implementation.