Editors' Note: This article was contributed to NK News by the DPRK’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was originally submitted under the title "Independence, Peaceful Reunification and Grand National Unity – the Fundamental Principles of Korean Reunification."

It has been long past half a century since Korea, a homogenous nation with a 5,000 year-long history, was divided into two by foreign forces.