Expressing deep reverence for respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, he said:

Kim Jong Un, who has led the movement for national reunification with his remarkable intelligence, generous magnanimity and bold decision, stressed in his New Year address the need to pave a broad avenue to the independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.

His address comprehensively clarifies the practical tasks and ways for accomplishing the cause of national reunification at present, such issues as improving the relations between the north and the south of Korea, ironing out the acute military standoff and danger of war between them and pooling the will and efforts of all Koreans to usher in a heyday of the nationwide reunification movement.

The people in south Korea express their unanimous sympathy with his patriotic call for stepping up the vigorous advance for national reunification by the nation's concerted efforts.

Major media and websites in the south are vying with each other in reporting Kim Jong Un's New Year Address as breaking news.

Every word of his address makes us clearly see the rosy future of a prosperous, reunified country and feel the strong will to put an end to the history of national division without fail.

When all compatriots in the north and the south and abroad turn out as one in the reunification movement, cherishing deep in their mind his precious teachings, the cause of independent reunification will be surely realized.

This year is of significance as it marks the 45th anniversary of the historic July 4 Joint Statement and the 10th anniversary of the October 4 Declaration.

Whoever is worried about the destiny of the nation and wants it to be one will have to actively buckle down to accomplishing the common cause of the nation, in response to Kim Jong Un's patriotic appeal.

It is the unanimous aspiration and will of all compatriots to pave a broad avenue to independent reunification under the guidance of Kim Jong Un, a great man born of Heaven.