The European Regional Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) and the Society for Cooperation among Koreans in Germany in a joint statement warmly hailed the joint statement of the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK. The statement clarified the important proposals for tiding over the crisis prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and between the north and the south of it and opening a new phase for peace and reunification.

The destiny of the country and the nation can never be an object of bargain, they said, contending that the south Korean authorities should not miss the last chance to discharge their mission for the nation though belatedly.

The Central Association of Korean Nationals in Russia said in its statement that the important proposals made by the DPRK are the most fair and realistic, timely ones in view of the present status of the north-south relations.

The south Korean authorities have no reason to refuse to respond to the proposals, it said, urging them to drop their policy of dependence on outside forces as soon as possible and come out for north-south dialogue in the idea of "By our nation itself".

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Zhongnan Regional Association of the General Association of Koreans in China in a statement on Jan. 8 said that nothing is more important for the Korean nation than to achieve national reunification. The authorities, political parties and organizations of south Korea should come out for dialogue at an early date to terminate the tragedy of division forever, he urged.