DPRK Foreign Ministry on Feats Performed by Kim Jong Il for Country's Reunification

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) - The Disarmament and Peace Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Friday issued a report on the study of the distinguished contribution leader Kim Jong Il made by advancing the three charters for national reunification as a reunification programme common to the nation on the occasion of the third anniversary of his demise.

The report said: 

Kim Jong Il's formulation of the three charters for national reunification is the immortal ideological and theoretical feat performed in the struggle for the country's reunification to be specially recorded in the Korean nation's history of the movement for national reunification.

The fundamental principle clarified by the three charters is the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity. The three charters for national reunification is the programme for reunification common to the nation truth and realistic nature of which have been proved through the movement for national reunification. 

Kim Jong Il formulated and systematized ideologically and theoretically the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung for national reunification and, on this basis, wisely led the Korean people in their efforts for implementing the three charters for national reunification with rare ability to implement them. 

Kim Jong Il, through his untiring patriotic devotion, brought about such epochal events as two north-south summits for the first time in the history of national division and published internally and externally the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it. The publication of the historic north-south joint declaration brought about such exciting eventsas brisk dialogue and contacts between the north and the south, relinking of once severed railways and roads, repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners to the DPRK, reunion of separated families and relatives from the north and the south, the establishment of the Kaesong Industrial Zone symbolic of the north-south economic cooperation. They clearly proved the vitality of the three charters for national reunification which has been cherished by all Koreans as their common charter for reunification.

The "unification" touted by the Park Geun Hye regime of south Korea is the "unification through absorption", a replica of German-style unification and, in essence, a theory of confrontation against peace and unification. The present regime of south Korea is crying out for making a "charter for unification". This is because the principle of independence and the proposal for achieving reunification by federal formula, the core of the charter for reunification common to all Koreans, do not meet its ulterior purpose. 

If the south Korean regime has even an iota of the will to atone for its crimes before the nation and history, it should, before anything else, bring life to the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and retake sovereignty over the issue of inter-Korean relations and reunification issue. It should respect the three charters for national reunification confirmed as a programme for reunification common to the nation through the inter-Korean agreement and respond to the nationwide discussion on their implementation.

Third Anniversary of Death of Chairman Kim Jong Il

Three years have passed since Chairman Kim Jong Il of the DPRK National Defence Commission passed away on December 17, 2011. Those years were the days of boundless yearning of the Korean people for the Chairman and those of unfailing and noble sense of moral obligation to him. 

The Korean people have held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal NDC Chairman and added brilliance to his exploits. Reflecting the desire of the Korean people, the Chairman is preserved in his lifetime appearance in the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung, founder of socialist Korea, lies in state. Statues of him and mosaic murals of his beaming image were built on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang and other places across the country, and portraits of his beaming image hung in rooms of all the institutions, enterprises and families. The Korean people are wearing the badges bearing his image.

The fourth conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the fifth session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, that were held in April 2012, decided on holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as eternal General Secretary of the WPK and Chairman of the DPRK NDC. For the exploits he had performed for the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence he was awarded the titles of Hero and Generalissimo of the DPRK, and Order of Kim Il Sung and Kim Il Sung Prize, highest decorations of the DPRK. He was also awarded in July 2013 the commemorative order which was newly instituted to mark the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950 – 1953). February 16, his birthday, was designated as the Day of the Shining Star, and Order of Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Il Prize, Kim Jong Il Youth Honour Prize, Kim Jong Il Children Honour Prize, and the watch bearing his autographed name were newly instituted. 

Many documentaries about his revolutionary career and exploits were produced and screened, while Kim Jong Il’s Complete Works that comprehensively embody his great ideas and instructions being published. Literary works in reverence for him are continuously created and published. All these manifest the noble sense of moral obligation and loyalty of the Korean people to Chairman Kim Jong Il: He developed the Juche idea and the Songun idea into the guiding ideologies in the era of independence and brilliantly implemented them in all realms of the Korean society; he achieved the single-hearted unity of the whole society in which its every member is united into one socio-political integrity; he built up the DPRK into an impregnable political and military socialist power, which manufactures and launches artificial earth satellites and possesses nuclear capabilities; he made an epochal change in developing the country into a prosperous and powerful one; and he rendered distinguished services to the cause of the independence of mankind. 

The Korean people stepped up their vigorous advance to implement his lifetime wishes in all fields and sectors, thereby bringing about gigantic changes. Scientists and technicians succeeded in launching the artificial satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2 on the occasion of the first anniversary of his death and brilliantly carried out his lifetime instruction that the first applications earth satellite should be launched in 2012 that would mark the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung. Such construction projects that he had proposed and paid special attention as Changjon Street and People’s Theatre in downtown Pyongyang, Rungna People’s Recreation Ground, Ryugyong Health Complex, People’s Open-air Ice Rink, Pyongyang Folk Park, Breast Tumour Institute of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and others were completed at the highest level. 

Other major projects now under way in the DPRK, including those of power stations in tiers on the Chongchon River and livestock farming bases in the Sepho area, are all geared to translate his lifetime wishes and intentions into reality. It is an inflexible faith and unshakeable will of the Korean people to realize Kim Jong Il’s plans and instructions without fail. At present valuable seeds of prosperity sown by the Chairman are coming to fruition in the DPRK. A sea of apple trees at the foot of Chol Pass, another socialist paradise in the country, is a good example. 

In the mid-1990s when the imperialist allied forces concentrated anti-socialist offensives on the DPRK, the Chairman held higher the banner of Songun in defence of socialism and embarked on his journey of Songun. While continuously inspecting the units of the KPA, he crossed the rugged Chol Pass more than ten times to visit frontline army posts. When crossing the pass he looked down at a fruit farm at the foot of the pass and initiated expanding the production capacity of the fruit farm in order to ensure that people were supplied with greater amounts of fruit. Therefore, in Kosan at the foot of this pass was built a large-scale fruit farm, covering an area of 2 200 hectares which is two times greater than the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm in a suburb of Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, which won an international fame a few years ago as a “world-ranking model fruit farm.” The Kosan Fruit Farm with vast expanses of orchards full of apple tree blossoms in spring and the trees laden heavily with apples in autumn is a socialist paradise Kim Jong Il had wished so ardently in his lifetime. 

The DPRK is now witnessing rapid progresses in the development of science and technology in the fierce flames of breaking through the cutting edge, as he had wished. Many factories and enterprises in the metallurgical, machine-building and other economic sectors have been upgraded, while steady increase in production in light industry and agriculture bringing about remarkable improvements in the people’s living standards. Thanks to a great heyday in construction, such cultural, sports and recreational establishments for the people as the Munsu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club and Masikryong Ski Resort, as well as medical service facilities including Okryu Children’s Hospital and Ryugyong Dental Hospital were splendidly built in the country. Unha Scientists Street, apartment buildings for educationists at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, and Wisong Scientists Dwelling District made their gigantic appearances, and cities and villages across the country are being turned into socialist paradises, adding remarkable successes to the building of a civilized socialist nation. 

The Korean people’s vigorous grand march to materialize the lifetime plans and wishes of Chairman Kim Jong Il is led by their supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Il Will Live for All Eternity

Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, passed away on December 17, 2011. By his death, the world lost the most outstanding man. He was the greatest of great men, both in name and in practice.

Kim Jong Il was, first of all, a great ideologist and theoretician. He enriched and developed in a comprehensive way the Juche idea and the Songun idea authored by Kim Il Sung, founding father of socialist Korea and pioneer of the cause of independence of mankind. He published a great number of works covering all spheres of social life – political, economic, military and cultural – thus ceaselessly developing the Juche idea in depth. 

Now, the Juche idea shines more brightly as the banner of the cause of mankind for independence. When the cause of socialism was undergoing trials after the collapse of socialism in several countries, he wrote such important works as Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable and Socialism Is a Science, proving that socialism is the invariable ideal of humanity. 

In the late 1990s when the anti-socialist offensive of the imperialist allied forces was focused on socialist Korea, Kim Jong Il put forward Songun politics as the basic mode of socialist politics by developing in depth the Songun idea that struck its root in the Juche idea. This provided a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon with which the progressive peoples of the world could advance the socialist cause winning victory after victory under any circumstances and conditions. 

Kim Jong Il was a master of leadership. He ushered in the heyday of prosperity unprecedented in the history of the Korean nation. In the second half of the 1990s, when Korea faced manifold hardships caused by the extreme economic blockade and military stifling manoeuvres of the US-led imperialist allied forces and by consecutive natural disasters, he safeguarded socialism holding higher the banner of Songun, opening a new era of building a prosperous and powerful socialist country. Korea, thanks to his grand plan and his energetic leadership, could become a manufacturer and launcher of artificial earth satellite and a nuclear state. He kindled the flames of an industrial revolution of the new century to ensure that miraculous successes were achieved in all sectors of Korea’s economy.

Kim Jong Il opened a radiant vista for Korea’s reunification. Grandiose June 15 reunification era, whose principle is By Our Nation Itself, was opened as the outcome of the adoption of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration (June 2000) and October 4 Declaration (October 2007). 

It is a steadfast aspiration of the entire Korean nation to implement these declarations to the letter and achieve the independent reunification of their country by their concerted efforts, whatever the situation. Kim Jong Il pressed ahead with the cause of global independence holding aloft the banner of anti-imperialist independence. He saw to it that the Pyongyang Declaration Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism was made public in April 1992 to make it possible to bring about a fresh upswing in the world socialist movement, and he gave an active encouragement and support to the struggle of the peoples in different countries aspiring after socialism and independence. His energetic foreign activities conducted on the principles of independence, peace and friendship made a great contribution to building a new, independent world and defending peace and stability of the world. 

Kim Jong Il was the benevolent father of the people. Regarding politics as an undertaking to bring love for people into full bloom in its purpose, Kim Jong Il devoted his all for people’s happiness. He spared nothing if it was for people’s lives and health, and had many structures built for them. He cherished people’s happiness as his biggest wish, and worked hard for its realization.He made a continuous forced march for on-site guidance for his people to lead an affluent life with nothing to envy in the world. His on-site guidance was a forced march of legendary super-intensity that continued, rain or shine. He passed away on the train on his way to an on-site guidance by a sudden attack of illness caused by mental and physical exertions. History has never witnessed such a great man, who sacrificed himself heart and soul only for the people. 

Vishwanath, director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, pointed out that leader Kim Jong Il was a man sent by heaven for the service of humanity, and that such a great man might be born only once in some centuries.

Kim Jong Il will live for all eternity in the hearts of the Korean people and the progressive peoples of the world.