Joint Statement Calls for Accelerating Final Victory of Independent Reunification

Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un clarified a new line and policies of national reunification to overcome the prevailing difficulties and comprehensively indicated the ways of implementing them at the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. As soon as the new line and policies of national reunification were made public, they evoked a lively response. This being a hard reality, only the south Korean authorities and a few other separatists dared make reckless remarks going against the trend of the times, chilling the hard-won atmosphere. The DPRK government, political parties and organizations in a joint statement Monday clarified the following principled stand at home and abroad: Everybody should wholeheartedly uphold the line and policies of independent reunification set forth by the peerlessly great man out of ardent patriotism. If the south Korean authorities come out with any proposal from the stand of national independence and great national unity, we will candidly discuss it, though our new Juche-oriented line and policies are the most just and fair and aboveboard offer for reunification. This is our stand. 2. The Koreans in the north and the south and abroad are called upon to dynamically turn out in the general offensive towards the final victory of national reunification full of conviction. If the south Korean authorities make an offer favorable for the great national unity based on the true spirit of independence, the DPRK is also willing to push ahead with it. No one can block the Korean nation from dashing forward like the wind single-mindedly toward the rosy future of national reunification and prosperity. 3. The south Korean authorities should face up to our will and efforts for improving the north-south relations and bringing earlier national reunification and take responsible and reasonable option at the present crucial turning point. As we have already clarified, there are peaceful and non-peaceful ways for national reunification and we are fully ready for both ways. We will win the final victory in the struggle for national reunification and build without fail a dignified and prosperous reunified power, an envy of the world, on this land true to the wise leadership of peerless patriot Kim Jong Un. -0-