The website noted the joint statement clarifying the three principles of national reunification was adopted between the north and the south of Korea on July 4, 1972.

The DPRK proposed founding the Federal Republic of Koryo but south Korea came up with a "resolution on the simultaneous admission into the UN by the north and the south of Korea" seeking the permanent national division, pursuant to the U.S. policy, the website said, and went on:

President Kim Il Sung advanced a series of proposals for reunification and conducted energetic activities to prevent the division of the nation and reunify the country.

Even at the last moment of his life he signed a document related to reunification.

Leader Kim Jong Il provided the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration to implement the last instructions of the President for national reunification.

We highly appreciate the great contribution made by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to Korea's reunification and will stage dynamic activities to support the DPRK's peaceful initiative and resolute will for achieving detente and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.