Let us vigorously wage the movement for

independent reunification under Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il

Zo Il-min, Representative of the AINDF Pyongyang Mission met a journalist from the Korean Central News Agency marking the 9th anniversary of the publication of the South-North June 15 Joint Declaration

Nine years have elapsed since the historic South-North June 15 Joint Declaration was adopted.

Joy of the Korean nation in the south, north and abroad, nine years ago, still resound throughout the Korean Peninsula.

Voices of 160 countries and progressive people supporting the declaration echo in the hearts of the Koreans.

It is attributable to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, a paramount incarnation of patriotism, that the Korean nation has been victoriously advancing along the road of independent reunification under the banner of the June 15 Joint Declaration.

Marking the day, the AINDF vanguard fighters and broad segments of the south Koreans extend the warmest congratulation and gratitude to leader Kim Jong Il who opens a reunification era of national independence and wisely leads the entire Korean nation to realize the great national unity and national reunification.

It is the greatest fortune for the Korean nation to have Kim Jong Il, the sun of the nation and lodestar of national reunification, in high esteem.

He implanted the national independence in the Korean nation and has led the nation to realize independent reunification by publishing the June 15 Joint Declaration.

A new era of national unity and independent reunification, that is quite different from the past full of inter-Korean confrontation and discord, was opened since the historic day, nine years ago.

It is the greatest vitality of the June 15 Joint Declaration that all the Koreans had a center of national unity and reunification.

The south Koreans highly revere leader Kim Jong Il who implanted a dignified and independent national spirit in their hearts.

The south Koreans emulated the style of Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the matter of his manner, etiquette, attire and handwriting after they saw him through TV and newspapers, nine years ago.

The south Koreans’ reverence for him is mounting as his photo is widely introduced in papers, radio and Internet homepages across south Korea. The current of worshipping the leader is prevalent in universities, agricultural villages, factories and even in military barracks.

The south Koreans’ ideological consciousness has been changed rapidly in the current of worshipping Kim Jong Il.

Now the south Koreans have been strengthened into a dignified driving force of movement for the nation and democracy, adhering to the June 15 Joint Declaration adopted by leader Kim Jong Il.

Frightened by a collapse of colonial fascist rule by the pro-north Korean sentiment supporting the Songun politics, the US and the Lee regime defame the historic June 15 Joint Declaration and make frantic efforts to foment the inter-Korean confrontation and aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

However, vicious plot of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad cannot efface the justness and invincible vitality of the June 16 Joint Declaration.

The south Koreans from different strata keenly felt the Lee regime is a group of fomenting the inter-Korean confrontation and sycophancy through the Lee regime’s scheme to deny the June 15 Joint Declaration. They are full of a determination to keep the June 15 Joint Declaration, no matter how the US and the Lee regime make vicious plots against reunification.

Led by the sun of Songun, independent reunification of Korea will be accomplished without fail.

The Koreans in the south, north and overseas should accelerate the movement for reunification under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.