Guidelines for Peace and Reunification of Korea

Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- The entire Korean nation is pervaded with joy and confidence in peace and reunification this year marking the 45th anniversary of the historic July 4 Joint Statement and the 10th anniversary of the October 4 Declaration. Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address made a perfect clarification of the matter of improving the inter-Korean relations and making a starting-point for peace and reunification. The improvement of the north-south relations is the starting-point for peace and reunification and it is an urgent requirement of the whole nation. The Koreans are a homogeneous nation that has created brilliant history and culture on the same land for five thousand years. The perpetuation of the country's division would only increase the pain and disaster of the compatriots and the danger of a war on the Korean Peninsula. In that case they will be unable to escape the national disaster. Under the present situation where international order based on the jungle law prevails in the international arena and each country and nation prioritizes its own interests, if a nation goes united, it gets stronger but it is bound to go to ruin when divided. This is a reality today. Whoever is desirous of durable peace and prosperity common to the nation should unite close and overcome all sorts of misunderstanding, distrust and conflict and develop the north-south relations into the relationship of trust and reconciliation. All compatriots want peace, reconciliation, unity and reunification, not war. It is impossible to defuse acute military clash and danger of war unless the inter-Korean ties are mended. Korea will become a reunified power and there is nothing to fear and nothing impossible if the north and the south pool their will and efforts. All the fellow countrymen in the north, the south and abroad should regard the idea of improving the inter-Korean relations, starting-point for peace and reunification and demand of the times, as a noble guideline and make this year a meaningful year of a new phase in independent reunification. -0-