The statement said that Kim Jong Un sent warm greetings to the compatriots in the south and abroad who are struggling to achieve national reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, and encouraged them.

It went on:

The national reunification is the lifelong desire and behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and the most urgent and vital task of the Korean nation.

The regional headquarters will actively turn out in the nationwide reunification patriotic work for rejecting foreign intervention and resolving the issues of inter-Korean relations and national reunification independently in keeping with the aspirations and demands of the nation this year, upholding the slogan "Let us frustrate the challenges by the anti-reunification forces within and without and usher in a new era of independent reunification!"

Foreign domination, intervention, aggression and war moves should be resolutely rejected in order to accomplish the national reunification and any moves against the reunification not be tolerated.