Appeal to All Compatriots Issued

Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- A joint conference of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations held on Thursday adopted an appeal to all Koreans. The appeal said: Firstly, let all compatriots dynamically pave the way for reunification, holding higher the banner of national independence! Secondly, let us usher in a great heyday in the cause of great national unity for the country's reunification! Thirdly, let all compatriots turn out and convert the land of Korea into a cradle of peace and security and paradise completely free from a war! Fourthly, let's make the world see the shining appearance of a power reunified by federal formula accepted and supported by the whole nation! Fifthly, let us resolutely break with the past woven with hostility and antagonism, confrontation and conflict and pave a new way for improving the inter-Korean relations! We propose opening a nation-wide grand meeting for reunification on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of Korea's liberation, prompted by the ardent desire to bring about an epochal turn in weathering the present difficulties, improving the inter-Korean relations and accomplishing the cause of national reunification by the concerted efforts of all Koreans. -0-