The monument, covering an area of over 100,000 square meters, represents the ardent desire and steadfast will of the Korean nation to reunify the country, guided by the three charters.

More than 1.3 million people visited the monument for fifteen years, O Myong Hui, director of the monument, told KCNA, and went on:

At least 1 700 south Korean and overseas Koreans' organizations visited the monument.

The monument is 30 meters high and 61.5 meters wide. The figure three means the Three Charters for National Reunification and 61.5 the day on which the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was signed.

It is consisted of well-trimmed granite sculptures depicting two women in Korean costume with their hands holding up the emblem of the three charters. Embossed on the emblem are letters "Three Charters", the Korean map and magnolia in full blossom.

There are groups of subsidiary theme sculptures divided into parts of the Three Principle of National Reunification, a proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, the Ten-point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation and the hurrah for Korean reunification at the platforms of the tower.

Exhibited in the monument are rare stones donated by party and state leaders of different countries, world progressives and overseas Koreans.

There is also the monument to President Kim Il Sung's proposition on reunification which calls on all Koreans to get united as one in the principle of great national unity, irrespective of differences in ideology, political view and religious belief.

Leader Kim Jong Il initiated the construction of the monument and wisely led it to completion.

Now the monument encourages the reunification movement of all Koreans in the north, the south and abroad to open up a broad avenue to reunification under the banner of the Three Charters for National Reunification.