Joint meeting of DPRK Government, political parties and organizations held
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A joint meeting of the government, political parties and organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday.
The meeting discussed immediate measures to protect the sovereignty of the nation and peace through national cooperation.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong Sun, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jo Chang Dok, vice-Premier of the Cabinet, Kim Yong Dae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party, Ryu Mi Yong, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, and others.
Yang Hyong Sop in a report said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is the worst since the cease-fire in Korea due to the U.S. moves. The danger of a nuclear war increasing hourly on the Korean Peninsula requires all the Koreans at home and abroad to carry out an urgent national task for shattering the U.S. war moves and protecting the sovereignty of the nation and the peace of the country through national cooperation, he noted.
Saying that the danger of war comes from the U.S., not from the north and the south, he went on:
Now that there exists on the Korean Peninsula the confrontation between the whole Korean nation and the united states, all Koreans should unite and turn out as one to get the U.S. troops and their nuclear weapons and all other lethal weapons withdrawn from South Korea.
As an immediate action all the fellow countrymen should launch a vigorous struggle to check the DPRK-targeted military exercises being staged by the U.S. and the South Korean belligerent forces after amassing their aggression armed forces in and around the Korean Peninsula under the pretext of the "nuclear issue".
The fellow countrymen in the north, the south and abroad should let this year provide a decisive occasion of boosting national cooperation.
We should implement the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration to the letter from the firm independent stand that the Korean nation goes its own way no matter how the situation may change.
Pro-reunification patriotic organizations are still labeled as "enemy-benefiting" ones and excluded from the nation's common functions in South Korea though it will be three years since the publication of the joint declaration. This reality is souring the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity and laying big obstacles in the way of national cooperation.
Activities of pro-reunification patriotic organizations and figures should no longer be called into question or become a target of suppression for the mere reason that they have differing ideology and religious belief in the era of national cooperation.
Noting that the army-based policy of the DPRK provides the surest guarantee for protecting the dignity and sovereignty of the whole nation, averting a war and defending peace, the reporter stressed that all the Koreans should positively support, defend and uphold the great army-based policy with ardent patriotism.
The report was followed by speeches.
Then an appeal to the 70 million Koreans was adopted at the meeting.
The appeal called for upholding the joint declaration as the only signpost for hewing out the destiny and positively contribute to its implementation no matter how undisguised outside forces become in their interference and how complicated the situation gets.
It called upon the South Korean people to keep burning the anti-U.S. candles already held high and more valiantly turn out in the decisive anti-U.S. resistance to retake the trampled-down dignity and sovereignty.
Noting that signing a non-aggression treaty between the DPRK and the U.S. provides a substantial guarantee for preventing a war on the Korean Peninsula and ensuring its peace, the appeal called upon all the Koreans to come out in the nationwide struggle to get the treaty concluded.
Calling for fully realizing national cooperation in the idea of "By Our Nation Itself", the appeal said:
We propose to hold a grand national pro-reunification festival to be participated in by representatives from all walks of life in the north and the south and abroad in time-honored Pyongyang on the occasion of the third anniversary of the publication of the historic joint declaration.
And we earnestly suggest that functions for national reunification be briskly held to promote harmony and solidarity between workers, peasants, youth and students, women, intellectuals, media persons, religionists and other compatriots of all other social standings in the north and the south on the occasion of the August 15 liberation day, the foundation day of Korea and other anniversaries common to the nation.
