*OFFICIAL DELEGATE OF THE KOREAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION IN ROMANIA*
*AT THE KFA INTERNATIONAL MEETING FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN*
*23 OCTOBER 2010*
*"Reuniting the Motherland is the maximum national desire for all the Korean people. From the first days when the country was divided in North and South, we came with different rational proposals meant for the independent and peaceful reunification of the motherland and we are constantly striving to get them into practice”. President Kim Il Sung*
Dear Comrades and friends present here,
I started with the words full of wisdom of Eternal President, before saying anything else in front of this audience.
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, with the proclamation of the Republic of Korea, 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 "Northern aggression" was to create a puppet army which in just three years has 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 and weapons 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, Barack Obama.
In order to achieve the true atmosphere of detente on the peninsula, it is necessary to build trust between both parties and for a nonaggression 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 70's, 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 the third U.S. project meant to perpetuate the division and to create conditions for a so-called UN recognition of the "two Koreas", since the day of July 27th of 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 is 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 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 on 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 II Sung was the main promoter of its destruction in order to create real conditions for relaxation and free travel between the fellow countrymen in the North and South, proposed to hold a consultative conference between the top leaders of both parties, political parties, social and religious institutions.
"When the wall falls, workers, peasants, youth, students, politicians, economists, artists, religious people in general, will be able to travel freely without restriction”, the former Korean leader said. 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…..
Reunification poses two distinct, yet interdependent conundrums: reunification itself, which is the immediate challenge; and the strategic landscape that emerges from reunification, which has the potential to fundamentally transform strategic relationships in Northeast Asia.
It is known as a fact, not assimilated to propaganda that South Koreans perceive the United States not as the guarantor of peace but rather as a greater threat to Korean security than the DPRK. This is especially the case with younger Koreans who, in the very words of a former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul, "shared a lot of qualms about the U.S. unilateralism in the world.”
Dear Comrades,
President *Kim* *Il* *Sung* was the one who strengthened the motive force of national reunification!
While turning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea into a mighty fortress of reunification movement, he 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, in November 1990 the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification was formed as the great national reunification front that embraces all the reunification forces in the North, South and abroad. With this as a turning point, the reunification movement has developed into a nation-wide struggle.
*The 15 June Declaration*, those 10th anniversary was celebrated this year and which is the focal point of our meeting here today brings about the principle ”*between us, the Koreans”*, which is the fundamental idea of this declaration, which states 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. 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.*
Following the ministerial negotiations, 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 have met afterwards. Many South Koreans have 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 *'between us, the Koreans " *was the big formula for reunification of the country.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September called on the international community to create *"peaceful environment by rejecting the use of force" and "adjust the inappropriate international economic architecture." *This is a proof of the fact that the Pyongyang Government still keeps his promises when it comes to the desire to reunificate the country and stands firmly to the other peaceful principles that have been brought to light by the DPRK leadership.
In a recent statement made before the UN, the DPRK urged the international community to make efforts to pave the way for the developing countries to register the timely realization of the UN anti-poverty goals.
The statement came as Park Kil Yon, DPRK's vice minister of foreign affairs, was taking the floor at the UN high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, the eight goals which are due to be reached by 2015. "It is essential for the international society *to make every effort for creating peaceful environment by rejecting the use of force and removing the threats of use of force*," he said.
Us, Korea’s friends all over the world must oppose the issue of two Koreas of the imperialists and colonialists and must be supporting and encouraging the struggle for independent and peaceful reunification.
Personally and on behalf of the Romanian branch of the Korean Friendship Association I once again reiterate our complete support for Korea's 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 the South Korean regime led by the worst President ever, Lee Myong bak to perpetuate the division of the country into two parts by creating "two Koreas."
