Pomminryon Clarifies Its Will to Take Lead in Paving Wide Avenue to National Reunification

Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- The North, South and Overseas Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) issued a joint statement on Nov. 20 on the 26th anniversary of its formation. The formation of Pomminryon was a great event of epochal significance in strengthening the driving force for national reunification and developing the reunification movement into a nationwide movement, the statement said. The aspiration and patriotism of the fellow countrymen to defend the independent dignity of the nation and usher in the new era of reconciliation, unity, peace and reunification are growing stronger, it said, and went on: 1. Pomminryon will hold higher the three principles of national reunification and the north-south joint declarations as the lifeline of the reunification movement. 2. Pomminryon will resolutely check the reckless moves of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad for war and confrontation. 3. Pomminryon will surely succeed in opening the nationwide great gathering for reunification and take the lead in opening a new phase of peace of the country and its independent reunification. The statement called upon all political parties, organizations and figures at home and abroad aspiring after the improved inter-Korean relations and national reunification to turn out as one in the drive for successfully opening the nationwide great gathering for reunification. -0-