KIM IL SUNG
LET US ACHIEVE THE
GREAT UNITY OF OUR NATION
Talk to
the Senior Officials of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland and the Members of the North Side’s Headquarters of the Pan-National
Alliance for the Country’s Reunification
August 1,
1991
The
Pan-National Rally for the Peace and Reunification of the Fatherland was held
last year on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of national liberation, and
this year the second Pan-National Rally is to be held on August 15, too. I
think it is a good thing that the Pan-National Rally and the various joint
national festivals for reunification are held on the memorable occasion of the
anniversary of national liberation. We must work hard to make the forthcoming
events a success and a major occasion for achieving great national unity and
hastening the reunification of the country.
Achieving
the reunification of our country means linking the nation’s severed blood
vessels, bringing about national harmony and gaining national independence
across the country. In other words, it concerns the fate of our
fellow-countrymen; it is a matter vital to our nation.
As
is well known, our country was divided not because of contradictions within
our nation; its division was imposed upon it exclusively by foreign forces.
After the end of the Second World War the Korean question was dealt with to
suit the interests of the great powers, contrary to our nation’s desire and
will to be independent, and the United States occupied south Korea. As a
result, Korea was divided into north and south. It is because of continued
interference and obstruction by foreign forces that Korea has not yet achieved
her reunification.
In
the half a century since our country was divided not a day has passed without
our nation’s misfortunes and sufferings weighing on my mind, and without my
thinking how the country can be reunified. We must not leave the task of
national reunification to the younger generation. We must reunify the country
in our lifetime. National reunification is the supreme desire of the Korean
people and there is no more pressing task for them than to reunify their
country.
The
reunification of our country must be achieved independently and in a peaceful
way, and this calls on us to achieve the great unity of the whole nation. The
realization of the independent and peaceful reunification of the country is
inconceivable without great national unity. Great national unity is a
fundamental precondition for the achievement of the independent and peaceful
reunification of our country, as well as the most essential aspect of it. The
first and foremost task in achieving national reunification is to achieve the
great unity of our nation.
Whatever
movement we may join, we can emerge victorious only when we strengthen the
driving force and increase its role. This is an essential revolutionary truth
which has been our philosophy and faith throughout the long revolutionary
struggle.
The
driving force for national reunification is the entire Korean nation. The reunification
of the country is our nation’s cause of independence, and it can be achieved
by the efforts of our nation alone. Every Korean person is responsible for
national reunification and must bear his or her responsibility and play his or
her allotted role in the struggle to reunify the country. If our nation, as the
driving force for national reunification, is to fulfil its responsibility and
role, it must be united firmly as one. The strength of the driving force is
precisely the strength of its unity. The decisive guarantee for the independent
and peaceful reunification of the country lies in the achievement of the unity
of the whole nation and in strengthening the driving force for reunification.
All
the Korean people must unite closely under the banner of great national unity,
in the spirit of patriotism and national independence.
A
nation is a solid community which has been formed and developed historically,
and it is a unit of social life. Historically, people have lived with their
country and nation as a unit and have shaped their destiny through a combined
effort. The question of a nation essentially means the question of achieving
and defending its independence. Independence is the lifeblood of the people as
well as of their country and nation. If a man is deprived of his independence,
he is as good as dead; likewise, if a nation is deprived of its independence,
its existence and development is inconceivable.
It
is only when the independence of a country and a nation is achieved that the
independence of individuals can be realized; no one can escape the fate of
slavery if his country and nation is enslaved, for the life of an individual as
a member of the nation exists in the life of his or her country and nation. It
is precisely for this reason that, although a nation consists of different
classes and strata, people love their country, value their nation’s
independence and fight in unity for the independence of their country and
nation. People love their fatherland and value the independence of their
nation. These feelings are common to every member of a nation.
Originally,
nationalism came about as a progressive idea promoting national interests.
Under the banner of nationalism, the newly-emergent bourgeoisie took the lead
in the nationalist movement, yet nationalism could not be regarded as an
ideology of the capitalist class from the outset. During the period of the
bourgeois nationalist movement against feudalism the interests of the popular
masses were basically identical with those of the newly-emergent bourgeoisie
and, accordingly, nationalism reflected the common interests of the nation.
Subsequently, as capitalism developed and the bourgeoisie became the
reactionary ruling class, nationalism was reduced to the ideological means for
the capitalist class to defend its interests. Bourgeois nationalism conflicts
with genuine nationalism which truly promotes the interests of the nation. For
idlers, who may be called the parasites of the nation, to pose as nationalists
is nothing but a deception. Only he who does some work, mental or physical,
which is beneficial to the nation, can be a genuine nationalist.
In
our country, the land of a homogeneous nation, genuine nationalism means
precisely patriotism. Our nation, which has inherited the same blood
generation after generation and built up a brilliant national culture with the
same language on the same territory, is a nation with a strong spirit of
patriotism and independence. Our people have always loved their fatherland
ardently and fought strongly to defend the independence of their country and
nation. This is a proud tradition of our nation.
My
father put forward the idea of Jiwon (aim high) and educated me in
patriotism and in the spirit of national independence. So I set out on the road
of struggle with a resolution to dedicate my whole life to saving the country
and nation. My revolutionary activities began with the struggle for national
liberation and in the course of the struggle to establish the identity of the
nation, the identity of the revolution, I have evolved the Juche idea, the
guiding idea of our revolution. I have been fighting all my life for the
independence, sovereignty and prosperity of our nation, for the independence of
the masses of the people. I am fighting for the independence not only of our
people but also of people throughout the world, and for the abolition of
exploitation and oppression of man by man not only in our country but also
throughout the world. Just as it is inconceivable for a person who does not love
his parents and brothers to love his country and nation, so it is unthinkable
for a person who is indifferent to the destiny of his nation to be loyal to the
world revolution. As I always say, only a genuine patriot can be a true
internationalist who is loyal to the world revolution. I can say that, in this
sense, I am a communist and patriot as well as an internationalist.
At
the present stage of historical development, when the destiny of the popular
masses is being shaped with the country and nation as the basic unit, the whole
nation must firmly establish the identity of the nation and fight in unity for
its common interests and prosperity. We must not only achieve national
reunification on the basis of great national unity but also, after the country
is reunified, build an ideal society by relying on the united efforts of the
entire nation so that all the people enjoy equally unbounded happiness on this
land.
A
nation must regard its independence as its lifeblood, advocate and realize its
independence by united effort and achieve its common prosperity. I can say
that this is our Juche view on the nation.
We
have firmly adhered to the principle of always believing in and relying on the
combined strength of the people both in the struggle against imperialism and
in the struggle for the building of socialism. We have always given top
priority to national interests and relied on the combined strength of the
people in the struggle. We can say that this is the secret of the victory we
have achieved in the revolution and construction.
We
emerged victorious from the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle for national
liberation because the guerrillas and the people forged ties of kinship and all
the anti-Japanese patriotic forces fought in close unity. During the
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle we brought together patriotic people from
all walks of life into the anti-Japanese national united front and fought
Japanese imperialism with the united strength of the nation. The Association
for the Restoration of the Fatherland, formed in 1936, was an anti-Japanese
national united front comprising broad sections of patriotic people who opposed
Japanese imperialism and aspired to national independence. This association
united all the anti-Japanese patriotic forces from all walks of life including
communists, nationalists, workers, peasants, intellectuals, young people and
students, as well as conscientious national capitalists and religious men. We
established the tradition of national unity in the course of waging the
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, relying on the broad-based anti-Japanese
national united front.
In
the struggle to build a new society after national liberation, too, we
channelled our efforts firstly into achieving great national unity. In the
speech I addressed to the people after national liberation, I called upon all
the people who loved their country and nation and democracy to unite as one and
make a positive contribution to nation-building, those with strength giving
their strength, those with knowledge contributing their knowledge and those
with money offering their money. We have pushed forward dynamically with the
building of a democratic new state and with socialist construction, relying on
the combined strength of all the people. Our socialist construction aims at
enabling all our people to lead happy and worthwhile lives in a society free
from exploitation and oppression. The socialist society we are building is
socialism centred on the popular masses. Socialism centred on the popular
masses means a genuine society for the people where all the people are the
masters of the country and everything in society serves the popular masses. We
need not build socialism which does not serve the popular masses, and we cannot
build socialism centred on the popular masses without uniting the popular
masses.
The
aim of the reunification of our nation is to realize the independence of our
nation, to achieve the common development and prosperity of the nation and to
ensure that all the Korean people lead happy and worthy lives in one reunified
land. It is natural, therefore, that all the people should combine their will
and rally as one in the struggle for national reunification, and this is fully
possible.
The
Joint Conference of the Representatives of Political Parties and Social
Organizations of North and South Korea was held in Pyongyang in 1948. We called
this conference to discuss the pressing save-the-nation measures and national
reunification. The conference was attended by representatives of almost all the
political parties and social organizations of south Korea, except Syngman
Rhee’s party. Kim Ku, the leader of the “Korean Independence Party”, too,
attended the conference. In pre-liberation years when he was in the “Provisional
Government in Shanghai” Kim Ku had regarded communists as his enemies. But he
attended the conference having accepted our just proposal to meet and have a
heart-to-heart discussion on important questions concerning the destiny of the
nation as members of the same nation, and he eventually took the road of
alliance and coalition with us communists. He had no clear idea of what a genuine
communist was, but he was a patriot. He made a fine speech at the north-south
joint conference and after his return to south Korea he fought for national
unity and reunification before being assassinated by the Yankees and their
stooges. The historic April north-south joint conference served as clear proof
that despite differences in ideologies and ideals, political views and religious
beliefs all people can unite in the struggle for the common cause of the
nation.
If
the whole nation fights in concert, drawing on the traditions and experience of
national unity built up in the course of the struggle to realize our nation’s
independence, we shall not fail to achieve national reunification, the supreme
task of the nation.
The
concert and unity of the whole nation means the national reunification we
desire. What is the most important in national reunification is not the
procedures or methods but the achievement of the genuine harmony and unity of
the whole nation. If all Korean people in the north, south and overseas unite
their minds and, on this basis, attain great national unity the most important
problem in achieving national reunification will have been solved and then
other problems can be resolved easily.
In
recent years signal progress has been made in our efforts to bring about
national unity. Last year, after the August 15 Pan-National Rally, the
Pan-National Reunification Concert was held; also the north-south reunification
football matches and art festival took place. This year the north and the south
formed unified teams and participated jointly in the World Table Tennis
Championships and the World Youth Football Championship. This was a result of
our people’s desire for reunification that was stronger than ever before and
the intensified trend towards national concert and unity. This delighted all
the brethren in the north, south and abroad and led them to gain national pride
and confidence. If the minds of all our compatriots are united as one, the
great unity of the whole nation will be achieved and the country reunified. It
is in this sense, I think, that the Rev. Mun Ik Hwan in south Korea said that
our nation had been reunified now, that the reunification was in the perfect
tense.
It
is also for the sake of genuine national concert and reunification that we
have advanced proposals on national reunification through confederation based
on one nation, one state, two systems and two governments. Since there exist
two different ideologies and systems in the north and south of our country, the
confederation formula is the only way to achieve national harmony and
reunification. In the light of the situation prevailing in our country it is
wrong for either side to attempt to attain reunification by conquering the
other. An ideology and system should be chosen by the people themselves of
their own accord, not through coercion from outsiders. If one side were to try
to impose its ideology and system on the other, it would be impossible to
realize national reunification; it would rather aggravate the confrontation
within our nation and cause further national calamity. The ideological and
institutional differences within our nation should be gradually overcome not by
coercive methods but by strengthening national unity based on the common
interests of the nation. The most essential interests of our nation lie in the
nation’s reunification free from any foreign domination and interference. In
spite of the ideological and institutional differences within our nation we, as
a single people, can bring about reunification and work together for the common
prosperity of the nation.
Whether
they are in the north, south or abroad, whether they are workers, farmers,
intellectuals, young people, students, politicians, businessmen, religious men,
or soldiers, Koreans must all unite and strive to achieve the reunification of
their country, the common cause of the nation. Just as our people did in the
days of building a new country, compatriots from all strata in the north, south
and abroad must join hands in the cause of national reunification; those who
have strength should contribute their strength, those who have knowledge their
knowledge and those who have money their money.
The
workers, farmers and intellectuals form the major force of the nation. If they
cooperate and unite, while maintaining their own characteristics, they can form
a mighty, independent driving force of the nation and achieve reunification.
Workers and farmers should join hands with intellectuals, while intellectuals
should cast in their lot with workers and farmers and thereby fulfil their role
as the motive force in the struggle for the country’s reunification. It is
unfair to underestimate the role of intellectuals or to adopt a narrow-minded
attitude towards them. When founding the Party, we defined intellectuals, along
with workers and farmers, as one of its components. Our Party’s emblem
consists of a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush. These symbolize the
workers, farmers, and intellectuals who make up our Party. When we began to
build a new society immediately after liberation, we did not leave out the
intellectuals, arguing that they had served Japanese imperialism. We believed
in their patriotism and spirit of national independence and generously brought
them to our side. We regarded the intellectuals scattered across the country as
the nation’s treasure and searched for them one by one. We positively
encouraged them to play an important role in the building of a new country. Our
intellectuals trusted and followed our Party and have thrown in their lot with
it. They dedicated all their efforts and talents to the building of the new
democratic Korea. They also fought courageously in the Fatherland Liberation
War against US imperialist aggression, and after the war they worked for
socialist revolution and construction.
Today
the south Korean intellectuals, too, are fighting well for the reunification of
the country. The young people and students of south Korea are ardently
patriotic and have a strong spirit of independence against the US. They are
playing a central, leading role in the struggle to make south Korean society
independent and democratic and to reunify the nation. The south Korean young
people and students who are struggling heroically, dedicating their precious
youth without hesitation for independence, democracy and national reunification
are the pride of our nation.
In
addition to the workers, peasants and intellectuals, there are many people in
south Korea from different backgrounds who live in different conditions. We
must not neglect them. We must achieve national unity on the principle of
welcoming everyone without hesitation, who is not a traitor to the nation.
It
is very important to have a correct understanding of religions and to work
properly with religious believers. People believe in a religion because they
take their sufferings and misfortunes in this world as predestined, and they
yearn for happiness in the next world. Therefore, we cannot call them bad. What
is bad is the anti-popular politics that misleads people about the situation
and reactionary rulers who misuse religions, making them an instrument for
paralysing the people’s consciousness of independence and ensuring that the
people obey their rule. Progressive religious believers wish the people to love
one another and live in harmony. The south Korean men of religion are opposed
to the foreign invaders who keep our nation artificially divided and who
suppress the champions of reunification at the point of the bayonet. We must
be highly appreciative of the devoted struggle of the south Korean men of
religion for national reunification and unite with them.
It
is mortifying that in south Korea young people, the sons and daughters of the
nation, serve in the “ROK army” under the command of Americans who use it as a
tool for their neo-colonialist domination and for the implementation of their
policy of keeping our nation divided. We must awaken the officers and men of
the “ROK army” to the anti-national and anti-popular nature of the imperialists
and their minions so that they stand firmly by their own nation and people and
cooperate with their parents and brothers in the struggle for independence,
democracy and national reunification.
As
I always say, reunification means patriotism and division means treason. Those
Koreans who desire national reunification and strive for it are patriots,
whereas those who are opposed to reunification and accept division in league
with foreign forces are traitors. By this criterion we must unite with all
those who support reunification and advance with them in the same ranks. Even
one who may have once been opposed to reunification and have committed crimes against
the country and the nation, if he repents of his mistake and takes part in the
struggle for patriotism and reunification, must be allowed to start with a
clean slate and join hands with us.
There
are many people who once led a dishonourable life in the eyes of the nation but
have broken with their past and taken the patriotic road of national unity and
national reunification. Mr. Choe Tok Sin was one of them. As you all know, he
served as a corps commander of the “ROK army” and “foreign minister” in south
Korea. While he was pursuing the road of pro-US, anti-communism at important
military and political posts, he gradually began to feel disillusioned about
the traitorous and anti-reunification acts of the ruling authorities and took
refuge in a foreign country with the aim of living an honest life for the
nation. While in exile he engaged in patriotic activities for bringing about
the independence and democracy of south Korean society and reunifying the
country. He became clearly aware of which was the patriotic way to follow
during many visits to the homeland. He was moved by the fact that our Republic,
which is independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in defence, is
displaying the pride and dignity of the Korean nation. He also sympathized
with our consistent, just policy of embracing and joining hands with all those
who love their country and nation, regardless of differences in political
views, ideas and religions without asking about their past, and the policy of
great national unity. He said he had found a paradise on Earth in the homeland,
the land of bliss which he, as a nationalist and Chondoist, had aspired to and
sought all his life. With a determination to dedicate the rest of his life to
the just cause of the country and the nation, he applied for permanent
residence in the homeland. Although he had opposed us in the past, we
positively supported his decision and agreed to join hands with him for the
sake of great national unity and the reunification of the country since he was
resolved to break with the past and make a fresh start for the sake of the
country and the nation. After being taken into the embrace of the homeland, he
worked with devotion to the last moment of his life as the Chairman of the
Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party and the Vice-Chairman of the
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland; he did so for the
prosperity and development of the country, for great national unity and for the
country’s reunification. He passed away, failing to see the day of national
reunification to which he had looked forward. But in his last years he joined
the ranks of the national reunification movement and marched forward with his
fellow countrymen. As a result, he came to enjoy immortality as a patriotic
martyr who is held in affection by the people, and who helped his compatriots
at home and abroad to understand the real meaning of national concert and great
unity.
For
the realization of great national unity compatriots from all social strata in
the north, south and abroad must place their common national interests above
all else and subordinate everything to national reunification, transcending
differences in ideas, social systems and religious beliefs. We must regard
this as a fundamental principle in achieving great national unity and firmly
adhere to this principle.
Our
national community which has been formed and consolidated over a history of
five thousand years is greater than transient differences in social systems,
ideals and ideologies which have come about owing to national division; the
common national desire to achieve reunification as a homogeneous nation is
incomparably more important than the interests of individual social classes and
social strata. Although the defence of the ideals and ideologies of individual
classes and strata and the realization of their interests are important, it is
even more important to realize the common cause of the nation. Classes and
strata form part of the nation. Therefore, no class and no stratum can realize
its own interests apart from the common national interests. Only when there is
a nation can there be classes, and only when national interests are guaranteed
can the interests of the classes be ensured.
Today
when the independence of our nation is being trampled upon by foreign forces,
no class or stratum, if it belongs to the Korean nation, should hamper the
achievement of national reunification, the common cause of our nation, by
putting its interests to the fore. There should be no practice of placing class
interests ahead of national interests, or of setting the struggle to satisfy
class demands against the struggle for national reunification, swayed by minor
interests and prejudices. Moreover, for fellow countrymen to reject or repress
one another on the strength of government authority because of differences in
political views, isms and assertions or for them to be hostile to one another
because of differences in ideas and social systems—these are fundamentally
contrary to the principle of great national unity jointly agreed upon between
north and south, and such acts are intolerable for the nation. Our people will
never be able to achieve their reunification if the two sides reject and are
hostile towards each other, putting differences to the fore instead of uniting
on their common ground as a single nation.
If
the great unity of the nation is to be achieved, contacts and visits should be
widely encouraged among the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad
and dialogue be promoted actively among them.
If
the whole nation is to act in concert and pool its strength for the common
purpose, an atmosphere of understanding and confidence should be created
within the nation. Because our country has been divided and the north and the
south have been alienated from each other for a long time, some people
misunderstand their fellow countrymen, believing them to be their enemy, and
some people hesitate to go hand in hand with their fellow countrymen because
of a lack of confidence, although they wish to see national unity. In order to
remove such misunderstanding and distrust within the nation and realize
national concert and unity, it is necessary to encourage free visits, contacts
and talks.
What
is important in realizing free travel and contact and wide-ranging dialogue is
to pull down the barrier of division and remove all political and legal
obstacles to it. We have already made proposals for removing the barrier of
division, ensuring free travel and opening all doors between north and south
and have been making untiring efforts to realize them. The point in question is
that the south Korean authorities should pull down the barrier of division and
remove all obstacles that hamper free travel, contact and dialogue among the
fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad. Today the “National Security
Law” of south Korea is a major obstacle to free travel, contact and dialogue
between north and south. In south Korea those who have been to the north or who
have discussed reunification in foreign lands with people from the north are
punished under the “National Security Law”. The Rev. Mun Ik Hwan, who is over
70, a young girl student Rim Su Gyong and other visitors to the north, as well
as a large number of those working for reunification, are currently imprisoned
under this law. If this wicked law is not repealed, there can be neither free
travel and contact nor free dialogue between north and south. That is why the
“National Security Law” must be abolished as soon as possible.
In
order to achieve great national unity we must strengthen nationwide solidarity
in the struggle for national reunification.
Great
national unity cannot be achieved only by words. It can be achieved and
consolidated in the course of developing joint action by uniting minds and efforts
in the struggle to reunify the country. All political parties, organizations
and compatriots from all walks of life in the north, south and abroad must
support one another and take concerted action in the struggle for the country’s
reunification.
The
cardinal task here is to check and frustrate the schemes of the forces which
are opposed to reunification and working to keep the nation divided for ever
and provoke another war. In order to isolate and weaken these forces and defeat
their divisive moves, the compatriots in the north, south and abroad must
develop an active joint struggle in various forms. The tens of thousands of US
troops and more than 1,000 nuclear weapons of various types deployed in south
Korea are the root cause of tension on the Korean peninsula and pose the threat
of a nuclear war. We must have the US troops and nuclear weapons withdrawn from
south Korea as soon as possible and thus remove the danger of a nuclear war
that threatens the existence of our nation; thus we shall provide a firm
guarantee for peace on the Korean peninsula. All our compatriots in the north,
south and abroad must launch a nationwide struggle to compel the US to withdraw
its troops and nuclear weapons from south Korea and make the Korean peninsula a
nuclear-free, peace zone.
In
order to achieve great national unity all the political parties, organizations
and compatriots of all strata in the north, south and abroad that are
struggling for the reunification of the country must ally themselves with one
another organizationally.
It
is only when all our compatriots who adhere to the patriotic cause of
reunification are organized into an allied force that solid national unity can
be achieved and unity of action and unanimity ensured in the struggle for the country’s
reunification.
For
the organized unity of the whole nation, there must be an organization that can
ensure the voluntary association of our compatriots of all strata in the
north, south and abroad. I believe that the Pan-National Alliance for the
Country’s Reunification which was inaugurated in accordance with the decision
of the Pan-National Rally last year can be such an organization. The
Pan-National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification was formed through the
joint efforts of the patriotic organizations and public figures of all strata
in the north, south and abroad that aspire to the independent and peaceful
reunification of the country. It is a patriotic organization for
reunification, whose mission is to reunify the country on the three principles
of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, and which
represents the common will of Koreans in the north, south and overseas. It has
the important duty and responsibility of achieving great national unity and
hastening the reunification of the country. It will have to work hard,
conducting a variety of activities, to expand and strengthen its ranks steadily
among our compatriots and to hasten national reunification.
Many
obstacles and difficulties still lie in the way of the reunification of our
country, but we are looking forward with confidence to the bright future of
national reunification.
Our
nation’s move towards reunification is now stronger than ever before. Our
compatriots in the north, south and abroad are working hard with a firm
determination to reunify the country without fail in the 1990s. Nobody can
break our people’s will to reunify their country, and no force can ever check
our nation’s strong move towards national reunification. Through the united
efforts of the whole nation, our people will overcome the obstacles and
difficulties in their way to national reunification and reunify their country,
come what may.
Once
the country is reunified, our nation will be a dignified and strong nation and
our country will emerge on the world stage as an independent and sovereign
country with more than seventy million people, a brilliant national culture and
a powerful economy. Our nation is industrious and resourceful, and our country
is a beautiful land of three thousand ri in which it is good to live.
When the whole nation is united as one, and when the country is reunified,
there will be nothing for us to fear or envy. Our people will proudly display
the resourcefulness and greatness of the Korean nation and nobody will dare to
encroach upon our sovereignty. If the whole nation combines its efforts and
talents and develops the economy and culture after the country’s reunification,
our country will be more prosperous and civilized, and it will make a more
effective contribution to the common cause of the people in Asia and the rest
of the world for peace and prosperity.
For
the Korean people to devote themselves to national reunification is most
honourable and worthwhile. Those who have contributed to the noble cause of
national reunification will be held in love and respect by the nation and will
be highly appreciated by the reunified nation.
I
believe that you comrades, who are at the forefront of the struggle for
national reunification, will carry out the honourable duty entrusted to you by
the country and the nation.
