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My fellow Countrymen,

This year our people shall greet the 5th Anniversary of the liberation of our country. On this great historical occasion, our people must look back with warm hearts upon the tireless efforts and great achievements made in our country in such a short time. However, despite our great progress we must not allow ourselves to forget the horrors which we have escaped. Our people suffered under the brutal Japanese occupation which inflicted untold disasters upon us, and we must remember that our brethren in the South still suffer the calamity of occupation to this day! Though we are fortunate in having obtained our own liberation, the U.S. Imperialists in the guise of aiding have unrepentantly divided our country and enslaved our fellow countrymen in the same way that the Imperialist Japanese did before them. 

Countrymen, we cannot allow this to continue! The pain and suffering caused by this division must be ended. We must be prepared to put all our hearts and souls into the task of national reunification. To reunify out country is not only a noble task, but also the revolutionary duty and moral obligation of all our party and people. It is a question of putting an end to the foreign domination which has plagued our country once and for all, of restoring our lost sovereignty and once again linking the blood ties of our divided nation. It is a sacred national task that must be fulfilled no matter what difficulties and obstacles may stand in our way, for if our nation - which has lived as a homogenous nation in this land of ours for thousands of years - remains divided by foreign forces, it will be impossible to avoid further misfortune and calamities that come with foreign domination and subjugation! 

I therefore call upon all people to devote themselves to the cause of national reunification! Let those with strength to devote their strength and let those with knowledge offer their knowledge and together, you, the Korean people from all walks of life will act as a beacon, and a source of courage to our occupied brothers. With the mind of loving the nation, we will set out courageously on the road to unity!

-Kim Il Sung, Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea