Conference of student representatives from

south and north of Korea held

 

The conference of student representatives from the south and the north of Korea for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration was held at Mt. Geumgang resort. Present there were the members of a delegation of the Korean Student committee from the north and the members of a delegation of the headquarters of the student movement for the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration from the south side.

Speakers at the conference referred to the achievements made by the nation in the movement for reunification since the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration and called on the youth and students who represent the future of the nation and play a main role to fully display their wisdom and valor as young people in the patriotic movement for reunification.

They underlined the need for the youth and students in the south and the north to wage a dynamic patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity in unity and thus greet with honor the June 15 grand festival for national reunification, highly proud of having defended and glorified the era of ¡°By our nation itself.¡±

Speakers at the conference called for implementing the joint declaration and enhancing the role of youth and students.

A joint resolution of the conference was adopted there.

It referred to the following points to be implemented by the students in the south and the north responsible for the destiny and the future of the nation to achieve reunification, peace and the great national unity of the nation, most urgent tasks facing all the Koreans:

First, we will preserve and implement the June 15 joint declaration, a landmark of national reunification, to the last.

We will take an active part in the work to grandly mark June 15 as the ¡°Day of by our nation itself¡± and decisively foil the moves of the forces at home and abroad opposed to the June 15 joint declaration with the youthful valor and through an unflinching struggle and thus become vanguard in the nationwide movement for independent reunification.

Second, we will fully display the spirit and courage of youth in the movement to defend peace against war.

We will put increased spurs to the movement to frustrate any foreign forces¡¯ policy for invading our territory and liquidate the anti-reunification forces at home in league with them.

Third, we will wage a positive movement to achieve great national unity, a precondition and guarantee for national reunification.

The students in the south and the north will strengthen the alliance of pro-reunification patriotic forces with a view to foiling the moves escalated by the forces opposed to the June 15 joint declaration to hamstring the efforts for reunification while pursuing war and division and thus discharge their mission and role as youngsters responsible for reunification in the efforts to preserve and glorify the June 15 era.