Great Program

National reunification is the greatest aspiration of the Korean people.
President Kim Il Sung made his painstaking efforts all his life to present a reunified country to the Korean people and advanced Juche-based ideas on national unity, thereby elucidating the road of reunification.
In April 1993 the director of the Koryo Institute of the William Cary University of the United States arrived in Pyongyang.
Then, what made him, a Korean resident in the United States visit Pyongyang suddenly?
He, just a month before, had heard a report on the convocation of the 5th session of the 9th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and waited for the news on the session impatiently.
Around that time the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army issued an order to place the DPRK on the semi-war state to cope with the burglarious demand of the United States for nuclear inspection and the DPRK government released a statement on quitting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
The world public anticipated that the session would set forth a more drastic measure.
Nevertheless, the news on the session released some time later turned the estimation upside down.
At the session there was made public the “10-point Program of the Great Unity of the Entire Nation for the Reunification of the Country”.
At this the world media commented it as an event of rejoining a broken earth.
Upon hearing the news the director flew to Pyongyang with an earnest desire to see President Kim Il Sung.
Received by President Kim Il Sung, he said the 10-point Program of the Great Unity of the Entire Nation is an excellent program for reunification, adding the President should be President of a reunified federal state.
Laughing out loud, President Kim Il Sung said he wished not to become president of a federal state, but to see a reunified country as soon as possible.
He went on to say if the country is to be reunified at present, the entire Korean nation in the north and the south and abroad should achieve a great unity and, if the entire nation is united, it would successfully solve all problems arising in reunifying the country.
President Kim Il Sung explained the object of the 10-point program, its main idea and the contents of every article and the problems arising in understanding them.
The 10-point program reflects the problem of establishing an independent, peaceful and neutral unified state through the great unity of the entire nation, the problem of uniting on the principle of promoting co-existence, co-prosperity and mutual interests and subordinating everything to reunification, the problem of promoting mutual trust and unity between the north and the south and all other problems arising in achieving the great unity of the entire nation.
President Kim Il Sung stressed the need for the entire nation to unite transcending the differences in ideologies, ideals, systems and religious beliefs and embodied the idea consistently.
Eventually, he defined the Juche-based idea on national unity on the highest phase with the publication of the 10-point program.
Back to the United States, the director spoke highly of the 10-point program as a great program on national unity that was provided by the painstaking efforts, meditation and research of President Kim Il Sung for reunification.
Leader Kim Jong Il defined the three principles for national reunification, the 10-point Program of the Great Unity of the Entire Nation and the proposal for Founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo, all advanced by President Kim Il Sung as three charters of national reunification and, with them as a banner, brought about the era of reunification on this land under the conception of “By our nation itself”.
Today the entire Korean nation is dynamically fighting for national reunification under the leadership of the respected Kim Jong Un on the basis the idea of great national unity advanced by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il