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Lesson Taught by This Year's Struggle for Peace and Reunification

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- This year the Korean nation raised it as an urgent task of the nation to avert the danger of war and defend peace on the Korean peninsula and have waged a valiant struggle for its implementation. But the U.S. imperialists have persistently escalated their military moves, pushing the situation of the country to the brink of war for one year. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    It is the invariable ambition of the United States to keep the Korean peninsula divided into the north and the south, and south Korea under the permanent occupation of its aggression forces and use it as a bridgehead from which to seize the whole peninsula and establish a domination over the vast area of Asia.
    As part of its criminal moves the U.S., this year, too, ceaselessly perpetrated reckless military provocations, driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an extreme phase.
    Especially, the U.S. imperialists vociferated about a "military option" against the DPRK over the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and worked hard to put it into practice.
    All the facts clearly prove that the U.S. is the principal disturber of peace and the root cause of a war on the Korean peninsula and the entire Korean nation is responsible for defending peace and preventing a war there. This, therefore, clearly indicates that there is only the confrontation between the Korean nation in the north and the south and the United States and it is impossible to achieve peace of the country or its independent reunification apart from an anti-U.S., anti-war struggle.
    This is a lesson taught by the struggle of the Korean nation for peace and reunification this year.
    Both independent reunification and peace are for the sake of the Korean nation and it is the task before it to achieve them.
    All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad, deeply conscious of their responsibility and role as the defenders of peace and the driving force for the independent reunification, should more vigorously turn out in the struggle against the U.S. and war in sky-high spirits.