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DPRK marks proposal for founding DFRK with call to reunify

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-09 07:39

PYONGYANG - The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)called upon all the Koreans to strive to reunify the country, the official KCNA reported.

The committee issued a memorandum Friday on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo (DFRK), put forward by the late President Kim Il-sung.

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The proposal calls for founding a federal state involving the north and south with the two sides keeping their own ideologies and systems intact, according to the KCNA.

The DPRK government has made all sincere efforts to realize the proposal for founding the DFRK for the past three decades, the memorandum says.

All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should struggle to reunify the country under the uplifted banner of the historic north-south joint declaration, it said.

The late president advanced the proposal for founding the DFRK at the Sixth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in October 1980.

He made public the "10-Point Program of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country" in April 1993, clearly indicating once again the idea to found a pan-national unified state represented by all parties, all factions and all the members of the nation from all walks of life, while leaving the two systems and two governments existing in the north and the south as they are.