Recalling that 38 years have passed since the publication of the July 4 joint statement which clarified the three principles of national reunification --independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--, the statement said that on this day the organization is full of the will to devote everything to implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and wage a dynamic struggle for peace against the U.S. and war, more firmly adhering to the three principles of national reunification.

The statement noted with apprehension that the case of warship "Cheonan" cooked up by the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak regime pushed the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a dangerous phase.

It accused the authorities of intensifying the anti-reunification and confrontation moves such as war exercises for invading the DPRK, the resumption of the psychological warfare in the areas along the Military Demarcation Line and suppression of organizations for the reunification movement and patriotic personages with the warship case as a momentum.

We will sternly punish the group of traitors keen on the dependence on outside forces and anti-reunification actions on behalf of the compatriots, warned the statement.

All Koreans should go united in the spirit of "By our nation itself" and drive the U.S. forces and the traitors out of this land without fail, declared the statement.