President Kim Il Sung and Cause of National Reunification

 

President Kim Il Sung and Cause of

National Reunification

Ciprian Pop

Secretary General,

Romanian Workers’ Association,

Romanian journalist

Dividing the Korean peninsula by the 38 parallel was a U.S.

proposal, as noted in the memoirs of American president Harry S.

Truman (1945-53).

The successor of Franklin D. Roosevelt, commented the U.S.

government's strategy to occupy south Korea, in a volume regarding

some anecdotes of his life. On August 15, the United States met its

main objective of dividing the country, creating an artificial state in the

south, a state created by force and against the true will of the south

Korean people. The most important measure to fight against what they

called “southern aggression” was to create a puppet army which in just

three years had reached 150 thousand soldiers, trained and armed by

the imperialists. Nowadays, the same army counts on more than a

million soldiers.

Both the division of Korea and the continuing presence of US

troops in the south corresponds to the hegemonic policies outlined by

the presidents of the United States of America from Roosevelt to the

most recent occupant of the White House, Joe Biden.In order to achieve the true atmosphere of detente on the peninsula,

it is necessary to build trust between both parties and for a non-

aggression agreement to be signed between the DPRK and the US and

for the Americans to reduce the forces and means of warfare, including

the unconditional withdrawal of more than 40 thousand U.S. troops and

more than thousand weapons of mass destruction that are still kept in

the southern half of the peninsula.

In the southern part of the Military Demarcation Line in the 70s,

the south Korean soldiers, started building a concrete wall of 240

kilometers long, based on the plans of U.S. military engineers, a

genuine WALL OF SHAME, which divides the peninsula through its

center from East to West. This work was one of the U.S. projects meant

to perpetuate the division and to create conditions for a so-called UN

recognition of the “two Koreas”, since the day of July 27, 1953, when

the U.S. troops signed the Armistice at Panmunjom, which is

undoubtedly the equivalent to its defeat in the war.

The wall itself was a fabulous work in size and investment. At least

800 000 tons of cement, more than 3 million 500 thousand cubic meters

of aggregates, over 200 thousand tons of steel and wood were used to

achieve it. The average height of the wall is 5 to 8 meters; the base has

a width of 10 to 19 and the top is 3 to 7 meters. At various points it has

iron gates that operate automatically to make way for motorized and

infantry troops.

The south Korean authorities no longer deny the existence of this

barrier of discord, but do not agree to dismantle it either, as requested

by all Koreans.

President KIM IL SUNG was the main promoter of its destruction

in order to create real conditions for relaxation and free travel betweenthe fellow countrymen in the North and South, and proposed to hold a

consultative conference between the top leaders of both parties,

political parties, social and religious institutions.

President KIM IL SUNG said that when the wall falls, workers,

peasants, youth, students, politicians, economists, artists, religious

people in general, will be able to travel freely without restriction.

But albeit his will and declarations, the WALL OF SHAME is still

kept by those not interested in national integration, because the United

States does not want to lose its strategic point to exercise its hegemony

in Asia and the Pacific area: that is south Korea.

While turning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea into a

mighty fortress of reunification movement, President KIM IL SUNG

made every efforts to unite the forces of the nation as one by means of

three-way solidarity of the north, south and overseas Koreans. Thus,

the reunification movement was developed into a nation-wide struggle.

“The June 15 Joint Declaration” whose fundamental idea is the

principle “By the Korean Nation Itself”, states that the country's

reunification should be done by the Koreans in the north and the south,

without any foreign intervention.

After the adoption of the joint declaration many good events

occurred. The north Koreans, those in the south and those in the

Diaspora have lobbied energetically to promote the reconciliation and

unity by strengthening their cooperation in the light of the “June 15

Joint Declaration”.

And the Red Cross and military experts in the problems between

north and south reached joint agreements, putting into the foreground

the aspirations and interests of the reunification of the country, as well

as cooperation and exchanges in various fields.Families separated by more than half a century met afterwards.

Many south Koreans watched the artistic representations of “Arirang”,

unique masterpieces and visited beautiful places like Pyongyang, as

well as Kumgang, Paektu and Myohyang Mountains.

During this period the “By the Korean Nation Itself” was the big

formula for reunification of the country.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea called on the

international community to create “peaceful environment by rejecting

force” and “adjust the inappropriate international economic

architecture.” This is a proof of the fact that the DPRK Government

still keeps his promises when it comes to the desire to reunify the

country and stands firmly to the other peaceful principles that have

been brought to light by the DPRK leadership.

We, the Korea’s friends all over the world must oppose the

imperialists’ and colonialists’ scheme to create “two Koreas” and must

support and encourage the struggle for independent and peaceful

reunification.

Personally and on behalf of the Workers’ Romania Association, I

once again reiterate our complete support for Korean peoples’

endeavors to achieve, independently and peacefully, the reunification

of the country on the basis of the three principles and

President KIM IL SUNG’s five-point program for the reunification of

the Motherland, believing this to be an expression of the wish of all the

Korean people.

We also support the need for the speedy withdrawal of all foreign

troops --located in South Korea under the so-called banner of the UN –

whose presence constitutes a primary obstacle to the unification of the

country and we resolutely condemn all attempts by imperialists and thesouth Korean regime to perpetuate the division of the country into two

parts by creating “two Koreas.”