The adoption of the joint declaration was a great event in the struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea, the statement said, and went on:

Embodied in the joint declaration are President Kim Il Sung's idea of national independence that the question of Korea's reunification should be settled by the Koreans themselves, not by outsiders, and the spirit of "By our nation itself".

The adoption of the joint declaration was a brilliant fruition of the Songun politics pursued by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Today puppet traitor Lee Myung Bak of south Korea is totally denying the June 15 joint declaration by inciting confrontation and division between the north and the south through such anti-DPRK campaign as the warship "Cheonan" case.

We support the Korean people in the just struggle to keep the idea and principle of the June 15 joint declaration while standing against the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak puppet clique.