President Kim Il Sung advanced the proposal at the Sixth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on October 10, 1980, the paper said.

The proposal calls for reunifying the country through federal formula, leaving the ideologies and social systems in the north and the south as they are, it noted, adding the federal formula is a realistic proposal which helps achieve the peaceful reunification of the country in line with the aspiration and interests of all Koreans, it said, and went on:

Leader Kim Jong Il provided the north-south summit and made sure that the June 15 joint declaration was adopted and published.

The joint declaration clarifies the principles of reunification and, what is most important in it is to settle the reunification issue by the concerted efforts of the nation free from outsiders' interference.

The efforts of the DPRK headed by supreme leader Kim Jong Un to improve the inter-Korean relations and advance the cause of reunification have faced the opposition of south Korea and the U.S. seeking only "unification through absorption".

The DPRK will never allow "unification through absorption".

The U.S. forces in south Korea are the main hurdles in Korea's reunification as they have nothing to do with the U.N. from long ago, in fact, though they held the flag of the "UN forces" for form's sake in the past.

As is the case with all military activities conducted by the U.S. in the region, the U.S. forces in south Korea are freezing the division of Korea and escalating artificial confrontation.

The U.S. is not willing to give up south Korea.