Open up a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by pooling

the efforts of the Korean nation, having leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem

 (Zo Il-min, Representative of the AINDF Pyongyang Mission)

The south Korean people are celebrating the February holiday with jubilation and emotion when the entire Korean people are determined to open up the era of by-our-nation-itself and a new era of independent reunification, having the peerlessly brilliant commander of Mt. Baektu in high esteem.

I would like to speak about the south Koreans¡¯ boundless reverence for leader Kim Jong Il on the occasion of his birth anniversary, the greatest national holiday and the common holiday of humankind.

The south Korean people have the great pride of having leader Kim Jong Il, the peerless patriot, in high esteem.

The housewives, old people and even the children, to say nothing of youth and students, workers and peasants call the leader NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People¡¯s Republic of Korea, or leader Kim Jong Il with warm affection, quite different from a decade ago.

The south Koreans gratitude and admiration for leader Kim Jong Il, who opened up the independent era of the June 15 reunification, develop into worshipping of leader Kim Jong Il.

First of all, the mood of studying Songun idea of the leader is prevalent in libraries and lecture rooms of universities, churches and offices of political parties.

The south Koreans from all walks of life say that they should know well about great personality of NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il and earnest studying of the originality, correctness and vitality of the Songun politics is necessary in order to have a correct understanding of the leader who leads the acute confrontation between the DPRK and the US to victory and opens up a new aspect of Korea¡¯s reunification.

It is common that a seminar on the Songun idea of leader Kim Jong Il is held in the university campus with participation of hundreds of people including students, professors and journalists.

The grand seminar on the Songun politics was held in Sungsil University under the joint sponsorship of universities and progressive organizations in November 2006, an academic forum on the Songun politics was held at Jeonam National University with participation of more than 300 students, professors and members of civic organizations in May 2007 and contest of thesis on the Songun politics was held in Seoul in September 2007.

Voices of eulogizing the originality, justness and vitality of leader Kim Jong Il¡¯s Songun politics reverberated at the seminars and forums.

The major publications and Internet homepages of south Korea carried more than 11,000 articles praising the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il from January to November of 2007.

Facts show that it is an irresistible trend that the south Korean people are confident of the correctness and vitality of the Songun politics and support it.

The Internet homepages of the progressive organizations including the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration post and introduce publications including ¡°Kim Jong Il, the sun of Songun¡± and other books including the biography of leader Kim Jong Il draw attention of the public in famous bookstores in Seoul, Busan, Gwangju and other large cities.

The public reverence for Kim Jong Il is prevalent across south Korea after the south Koreans witnessed the great personality of leader Kim Jong Il who devotes his heart and soul to open up a new era of reunification and national prosperity.

The people from the south side were fascinated by warm personality of the leader and moved by his openhearted character and broad-mindedness.

The students and people of all ages and both sexes raised hearty cheers when they saw leader Kim Jong Il in TV screen at the university campus, streets and waiting rooms of railway stations.

Unable to repress their emotion, they said; ¡°NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il is the greatest general and the greatest man,¡±  ¡°He is a tender-hearted, bold and broad-minded leader¡± and ¡°I realized that he is popular, open-hearted and courteous man.¡± 

The members of the south side delegation who were struck with personality of the leader said that good health of leader Kim Jong Il guarantees national reunification and good inter-Korean cooperation. 

As there is a benevolent bosom of the leader who embraces the people irrespective of workers, peasants, religious men and entrepreneurs and shows them the way of worthwhile life and stratagem of carving out the destiny of human being, the entire Korean nation has no demarcation line and wall in their hearts.  

The patriotic south Korean people say in one voice that the Korean nation is homogeneous nation with the same blood and language and has one mind to support the leader as the lodestar of reunification  

The south Koreans look up leader Kim Jong Il as the peerless great man, and a great leader who leads the Korean nation to reunification and prosperity.

The people from all walks of life, progressive organizations across south Korea, the affiliated organizations under the south Korean Federation of University Student Councils and the South Side Committee for Implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration launch vigorous struggle to remove pro-US sycophantic, anti-national and reunification forces and accelerate national reunification as soon as possible by pooling the efforts of the Korean nation.   

The present reality gives us firm conviction that no force on earth can check the current of the June 15 reunification era and, when the nation united as one conduct vigorous struggle, the cause of reunification will be realized without fail.  

No force on earth can check the advance for independent reunification under the Songun politics of leader Kim Jong Il.

In order to hasten national reunification, the long-cherished desire of the Korean nation, the south Korean people from all walks of life should intensify the struggle of independent reunification against the US in positive response to the June 15 era.

They should vigorously struggle to foil the aggressive joint military exercises and arms buildup of the US and south Korean hawks and withdraw the US military bases from south Korea. 

The Anti-Imperialist Democratic National Front and the people from all social standings will vigorously accelerate the struggle for reunification, cherishing sure victory of the cause of reunification led by leader Kim Jong Il, brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu and peerless patriot. 

Let us open up a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by pooling the efforts of the Korean nation, having Kim Jong Il, the sun of the nation and lodestar of reunification, in high esteem.