The tower reflects the desire of the Korean nation to put an end to the national division, which has been kept up for more than half a century, and to reunify the country. It consists of two women in Korean national clothes holding the three charters emblem with a Korean map carved on it.

Its height is 30 meters symbolizing three charters -- three principles of national reunification, ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo laid down by President Kim Il Sung.

Its width is 61.5 meters typifying the June 15 Joint Declaration published in 2000, a great programme for Korean reunification.

The 7,000-ton weight of the tower reflects the strong will of the 70 million Korean people to achieve the reunification of the country with their concerted effort.

Each of the two leaves of the door of the memorial stones exhibition hall weighs three tons, symbolic of solidarity among the Koreans in the north, south and overseas.

Erected nearby the tower was a monument containing a proposition of the President calling for unity of all the Korean people.