Under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung the Korean people won a brilliant victory in the three-year Fatherland Liberation War, an event to be specially recorded in human history, the statement said.

The dark clouds of a war still hang over the Korean Peninsula, it noted, terming the U.S. the very one responsible for Korea's division and the U.S. forces in south Koreas the main obstacle lying in the way of Korea's reunification.

All the world peace-loving people should show concern for the issue of Korea's reunification, it noted, and went on:

We extend firm solidarity to the army and people of the DPRK, convinced that they would register bigger successes in their efforts to build a thriving socialist nation and reunify the country under the uplifted banner of Songun.