The statement said that the tasks for national reunification set forth by Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address serve as important guidelines to be held fast to in this year's national reunification movement.

It went on:

All the Koreans should get united and usher in a new phase of independent reunification, peace and prosperity with the nation-wide pro-reunification patriotic struggle.

The driving force of the country's reunification is the Korean nation in the north, the south and abroad. And the country's reunification could be achieved independently in conformity with the nation's interests and demand only when the Koreans thoroughly embody the standpoint of By Our Nation Itself.

Respecting and implementing the north-south joint declarations is the fundamental prerequisite to bring earlier the country's reunification.

We would wage a dynamic struggle to implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, great programmes for reunification common to the nation in the new century and milestones for peace and prosperity.

We express firm belief that Korea will surely be reunified thanks to the immortal feats Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il performed in the sacred cause of national reunification and the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.