The statement said:

HE Kim Jong Un in his New Year address said "though the people-centred socialist system of our own style is the most advantageous, we do not force it on south Korea and have never done so", adding that "the north and the south, as they had already agreed, should resolve the national reunification issue in the common interests of the nation transcending the differences in ideology and system."

It is his firm will to briskly hold dialogue, negotiations and exchanges and make contact to relink the severed ties and blood vessels of the nation and bring about a great turn in inter-Korean relations.

Nothing is impossible if the Korean nation shares one purpose and joins efforts as elucidated in the New Year address.

We fully support the proposal for Korea's reunification clarified by him in his New Year address.

We extend invariable solidarity to the Korean people in their sacred struggle for the country's reunification under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un, the lodestar of national reunification and benevolent father of the nation.