Jang Sun Jong, chairperson of the Central Association of Korean Nationals in Russia, noted in a statement on Thursday that Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address clarified his firm will to achieve national reunification without fail, true to the life-long desire of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their behests and clearly indicated tasks and ways for waging a nationwide patriotic struggle for reunification by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.

Jang declared that all Koreans in Russia would stage a dynamic patriotic movement for reunification for checking and frustrating the moves of the anti-reunification forces and opening a new phase in national reunification in this historic year, the 65th anniversary of the DPRK and the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

Cha Sang Bo, vice-chairman of the General Association of Koreans in China, said in a statement on Wednesday that Kim Jong Un is a peerless patriot who works heart and soul for national reunification true to the patriotic intention and behests of the Generalissimos, deeply grieving over the national division.

He called on all Koreans in China to intensify the struggle to hasten the independent reunification of Korea and thus adorn this year as a year shining in the history of the reunification movement of the nation.