The article recalled that supreme leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address called upon the Korean nation to usher in a fresh phase of independent reunification, peace and prosperity this year.

Due to the extreme moves of the south Korean authorities which conspired with foreign forces to escalate confrontation the inter-Korean relations have plunged to a deadlock and the danger of a nuclear war has reached the extremity on the Korean Peninsula, it said, and went on:

The issue of reunification of Korea is an important one directly linked with the regional and world peace.

It is by no means accidental that the international community pays special attention to the New Year Address made by supreme leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Un.

President Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, laid out the three principles of national reunification, ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo.

He also personally signed the document related with the country's reunification during the last moments of his life.

Leader Kim Jong Il, eternal chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, achieved exploits which will go down in the history of the reunification movement of the Korean nation by providing the north-south summits for the first time in the history of the nation's division and making sure that the June 15 joint declaration, a landmark of national reunification, and the October 4 declaration, its practical programme, were adopted.

The future of the Korean nation is bright and rosy as there is leadership of Kim Jong Un, lodestar of national reunification.

The whole Korean nation will turn out in the nationwide struggle for national reunification in close unity and thus usher in a fresh phase of independent reunification, peace and prosperity this year.