The Korean people's struggle would be unthinkable without the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung, founder of socialist Korea, for the cause of the country's reunification, the paper said, and went on:

Kim Il Sung always put the great national unity above all in realizing the country's reunification, subordinating everything to the unity.

The three principles of national reunification for independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, which constitute the core of the historic July 4 joint statement, were also set forth by him.

The 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country laid down by him serves as the great programme of the national unity for the Korean people aspiring after reunification.

He advanced the proposal for founding DFRK at the 6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in October 1980. The proposal calls for founding a federal republic on the condition that the north and the south recognize and tolerate each other's ideas and social systems.

The monument to his signature at Panmunjom serves as a stark reminder of his undying feats for the cause of Korea's reunification.