Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a bylined article.

National reunification was the lifelong desire of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu, the article says, and goes on:

President Kim Il Sung took to his heart the misfortune the Korean nation was suffering due to the country's division and worked heart and soul to hand over a reunified country to posterity till the last moments of his life.

Leader Kim Jong Il provided a firm foundation for carrying out the last instruction of the President for national reunification and led all Koreans along the road of reunification and patriotism with his noble patriotism and broad-minded magnanimity.

It is the firm determination and will of Kim Jong Un to achieve the country's reunification by concerted efforts of the Koreans in line with the ideas and intentions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The wise leadership of Kim Jong Un provides a firm guarantee for national reunification, national independence, pioneered and led by the great Generalissimos.

The Koreans now foresee the shinning day of victory of the cause of independent reunification thanks to the leadership of Kim Jong Un identical to the great Generalissimos.

The article calls on all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas to open up a landmark phase in the struggle to achieve independent reunification under the steersmanship of Kim Jong Un.