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Signal Progress in Efforts for National Unity and Reunification

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have made strenuous efforts to achieve the reconciliation, unity and reunification of the nation on the basis of the idea "by our nation itself" this year when they marked the 3rd anniversary of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. Thanks to the efforts to strengthen the nation-wide solidarity and unity, this year has witnessed a progress in exchange and cooperation between the authorities and civilian organizations of the north and the south and the territory, which had been severed for more than half a century, is now being relinked.
    Four rounds of the north-south ministerial talks have been held and exchange and cooperation activated between various civilian organizations in all fields this year.
    Such grand pro-reunification festivals as the national reunification festival observing the 3rd anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the March 1 national rally for peace and reunification and the August 15 national rally fully demonstrated the will of the nation to reject the outside forces and invigorate the struggle for national independence and reunification.
    Through conferences and meetings of workers, teachers, youth and students, a joint national ceremony commemorating the National Foundation Day and other pro-reunification events, the people in the north and the south manifested their strong will to implement the June 15 joint declaration and win national unity and reunification, transcending differences in ideology, idea, political view and religious belief.
    Meanwhile, historians of the north and the south had different kinds of seminars and vowed to pool efforts to preserve well the precious cultural wealth of the nation and regain the dignity of the nation.
    Various sports and cultural events were held in Pyongyang and Taegu and on Jeju Island, demonstrating to the whole world that the Korean nation has the same blood, language and culture.
    A trial travel of Mt. Kumgang, famous in the world, by land, the ground-breaking ceremonies for relinking railways and roads in the east and west coastal areas and the ground-breaking ceremony for building the Kaesong industrial zone and other grand events were also held this year.
    All the facts convincingly show that national reunification is not what can be achieved in a remote future and that the country can surely be reunified in any adversity when all the Korean people pool their efforts and take a joint step.