Since the Korean Peninsula was divided into the north and south by the outside forces, President Kim Il Sung had pursued the one-Korea policy and made painstaking efforts to reunify the country.

After the country's liberation from Japanese military rule on August 15 1945 the US and its stooges in south Korea tried to fix Korea's division through separate elections.

The President proposed holding the joint conference of representatives of political parties and public organizations in north and south Korea to rally all the patriotic forces into a single force and wage a pan-national struggle for the country's sovereignty, independence and reunification.

Later when the partitionists made a desperate bid to keep the country divided he inspired the whole nation to the efforts to foil their two-Koreas plot.

Thanks to his leadership inter-Korean negotiations were held and the historic July 4 joint Statement was adopted in 1972, opening a favorable phase for reunification.

As the nation's enthusiasm for reunification grew in the 1980s, the President put forth the proposal of founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, a blueprint outlining a reunified state and indicating the way to put it into practice.

The proposal indicates a fair and reasonable way to reunify the country through overall national unity while leaving intact the ideologies and systems in the north and south.

The publication of The 10-point Program of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country in the early 1990s was a decisive step to strengthen the main agent of the reunification movement.

"Those who are greatly interested in the reunification, irrespective of the differences in ideology, political view, creed, property status and past career, must unite as one nation and advance along the road of reunification and patriotism under the banner of overall national unity" this is the President's idea of great national unity.

Charmed by his great program of national unity and love of the nation, Kim Ku, Kim Kyu Sik, Cheo Tok Sin, Cheo Hong Hui and other personages in south Korea joined up with the northerners for national unity and reunification.

The President set great store by the formation of a pan-national united front and conducted energetic activities to unite all the pro-reunification forces in the north, south and overseas.

He set forth the policy of forming a national united front for the country's reunification on the basis of the experience he had obtained in the course of forming the anti-Japanese national united front during the anti-Japanese war and wisely led the efforts to implement it, bringing about great progress in rallying the Koreans at home and abroad under the banner of reunification.

The Korean reunification movement developed into a pan-national movement and the zeal of the fellow countrymen for reunification ran high. Under the circumstances the pan-national rally took place and the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) was established, a landmark event in strengthening the main agent of the reunification movement.

The monument to his signature at Panmunjeom showcases his painstaking efforts for the cause of reunification.

A day before he passed away the President saw a reunification-related document and signed it.

The exploits he had performed for the cause of great national unity and reunification are the invaluable legacy he left to the Korean nation and an asset for the reunification.

They are being carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.

He established the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point program of overall national unity and the proposal of founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo as the three charters for national reunification.

He provided the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration, guidelines for Korea's reunification, through the historic inter-Korean Pyongyang summits, opening up a new era of independent reunification under the idea of "By Our Nation Itself".