Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The monument to the three charters for national reunification of wonderful and peculiar style has been erected at the entrance of Thongil Street, a gateway to Pyongyang.
The monument strong in national color and peculiar in architectural style depicts two women in national costumes, jackets and long skirts, upholding the mark of the three charters for national reunification decorated with a Korean map after running, their breast-ties flying in the wind, to meet with each other.
This fully represents the desire and will of the 70 million fellow countrymen to open the door of national reunification under the banner of the three charters for national reunification.
Its tower is 30 meters high depicting the three charters and 61.5 meters wide symbolic of the June 15 joint declaration.
The three charters consist of the three principles of national reunification, the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation.
A ceremony for the completion of the monument was held on the spot today.
Present there were senior party and state officials including Kim Yong Nam and Hong Song Nam and working people in the city, former unconverted long-term prisoners, overseas compatriots on a visit to the socialist homeland, diplomatic envoys and military attaches of different embassies and representatives of international organizations here.
Kim Yong Nam said at the ceremony that the monument reflecting the ardent desire of the compatriots to terminate the history of the nation's division that lasted for more than half a century and achieve the reunification of the country is the world's masterpiece as it is profound in its ideological content and flawless in formative art and a grand monumental edifice to shine long with Kim Jong Il era.
Recalling that leader Kim Jong Il, who has devoted his unremitting efforts and wisdom to the work to carry out the instructions of President Kim Il Sung for reunification, unrolled a grand blueprint of the monument and wisely led its construction, he said:
The erection of the monument is one more shining feat performed by Kim Jong Il in the history of the movement for national reunification.
He called for achieving the country's reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, at an early date in hearty response to Kim Jong Il's idea of national reunification and leadership over the drive for it.
No matter how the situation and circumstances may change, the entire nation should hold fast to and thoroughly implement the three charters for national reunification as the fundamental guideline for national reunification and thus pull down the barrier of division and certainly open up the door of reunification.
Senior party and state officials cut off the red cloth hanging before the monument.
The participants looked round the monument to the propositions of President Kim Il Sung on national reunification and the monument to the three charters for national reunification after being briefed on the monuments.