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Joint Meeting of Government, Political Parties and Organizations in DPRK Held

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- A joint meeting of the government, political parties and organizations was held at the People's Palace of Culture Monday. The meeting was attended by Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the Cabinet, senior officials of the government, political parties and organizations in the DPRK and officials concerned.
    The meeting discussed the agenda item "On paving a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation under the banner of our nation-first spirit!."
    Yang Hyong Sop in his report called for more energetically pushing forward the movement for national reunification this year as indicated in the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and holding aloft the slogan "Let us pave a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation under the banner of our nation-first spirit!"
    This patriotic slogan is evoking lively repercussion and enthusiastic support among the 70 million Koreans as it indicates the way of taking practical actions to build the structure of the Korean nation's confrontation with the U.S. and building a thriving and reunified country on this land by pooling the nation's wisdom and strength, he said, and went on:
    The U.S. is very upset by the Korean nation's efforts to solve its own issues by the concerted efforts of Koreans and it, therefore, is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to a very dangerous phase. All this goes to prove that the confrontation over the nuclear issue in Korea is a confrontation between justice and injustice, between forces standing for peace and those standing against peace and between pro-reunification forces and separatists, i.e. confrontation between the Koreans not only in the north but in south Korea and the U.S.
    All the Koreans in the north, the south and overseas should be proud of the nation's advantages and actively turn out to protect its dignity. The nation should give full play to its high national self-esteem and demonstrate its strong stamina to the U.S. which has brought only shame and disasters to it.
    All the Koreans should place the nation's interests above anything else and achieve national cooperation for peace and reunification without fail from the stand of depending on the nation's strength and unshakable will.
    All the Koreans should turn out in an anti-U.S. sacred struggle to protect the well-being of the nation and the peace of the country.
    They should implement the June 15 joint declaration to the letter and accelerate the cause of national reunification. It is also necessary for the nation to support and uphold the great Songun policy in order to pave a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation this year.
    Stressing the need to focus on implementing these five tasks to take practical actions to build the structure of the Korean nation's confrontation with the U.S. and pave a wide avenue for independent national reunification under the banner of our nation-first spirit this year the reporter courteously proposed on behalf of the joint meeting to hold nationwide meetings in Pyongyang, Seoul, Mt. Kumgang and other places to be agreed upon on national holidays and anniversaries common to the north and the south this year to pave a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation.
    The floor was taken by Kim Yong Sam, minister of Railways, Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, and Ri Myong Won, secretary of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League.
    They called on the north and the south to put the interests common to the nation above anything else no matter what others may say and maintain the principle and stand of solving all the issues in reliance upon the nation's efforts and steadily improve the inter-Korean relations in the idea of "By our nation itself".
    All the Koreans in the north and the south should turn out in a sacred struggle to foil the U.S. moves to provoke a nuclear war by the concerted efforts of the nation, they urged.
    An appeal to the 70 million Koreans was adopted at the meeting.
    The appeal noted that the confrontation on the Korean peninsula today is not just a confrontation between the north and the U.S.,adding the confrontation between the whole Korean nation and the U.S. is becoming a reality.
    It continued:
    All Koreans should uphold the slogan of the movement for national reunification "Let us pave a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation under the banner of our nation-first spirit!"
    All the Koreans should turn out in an anti-U.S. patriotic struggle to achieve national cooperation and protect the well-being and peace of the nation from the U.S. moves to estrange Koreans from each other. They should implement the June 15 joint declaration to the letter and thus accelerate the cause of national reunification and actively support and uphold the great Songun policy.