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WFTU Congress Supports Independent Reunification of Korea
Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The 17th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) adopted a solidarity resolution supporting the independent reunification of Korea. It took place in Durban of South Africa from Oct. 5 to 7.

The resolution said:

Korea is one.

Korea should be reunified by the Korean nation itself at the will and in line with the demand common to the nation. This is the common desire and aspiration of not only the Korean nation but also world progressives.

Reunification only can provide the Korean workers and other broad masses with genuine peace, happy life, independent development and prosperity.

The three principles of national reunification-- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--jointly agreed by the north and south of Korea, the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation serve as the three charters for national reunification, the June 15 joint declaration the keynote of which is the idea of By Our Nation Itself is a historic landmark for the independent reunification and the October 4 declaration is a programme for implementing it.

In solidarity and alliance with progressive trade organizations of the world and international organizations, the WFTU will stage a series of protest actions of diverse forms in succession to put pressure on the U.S. to clearly understand the strategic position of the DPRK and the trend of the times and drop its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, replace the Armistice Agreement by a peace treaty and withdraw all its aggression troops and war equipment including nuclear weapons from south Korea.

It strongly demands the south Korean authorities stop all reckless politically motivated military provocations and war drills against the fellow countrymen in the north which are in pursuance of the U.S. policy and are imperiling the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.

It expresses solidarity with the workers and other people of the DPRK in their efforts to ensure peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and reunify the country by a federal formula under the uplifted banner of national independence and great national unity, ardently calling on trade union organizations of all countries and international bodies to extend support and encouragement to the just struggle of General Federation Trade Unions of Korea in the future, too.

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