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Preserving Spirit of National Independence Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The historic Pyongyang meeting and the adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was a historic event of the Korean nation as it instilled confidence and optimism about national reunification into all Koreans in the north, the south and overseas and raised a hot wind of reunification throughout Korea. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article. It is the great result of the Pyongyang meeting and the June 15 joint declaration that the nation set forth independence as a common ideal and a militant banner for the north and the south, the article notes, and goes on:
    The principle of national independence is the core issue of solving national issues and a basic principle to be adhered to in the struggle for national reunification.
    The issue of Korean reunification is, in essence, one of establishing national sovereignty throughout Korea, rejoining the blood ties of the Koreans separated in the north and the south and achieving national unity. Korea should be, therefore, reunified by the concerted efforts of its people without allowing any foreign forces to interfere in them.
    The cause of national reunification calls on all Koreans to independently solve all issues as a master in line with their will and interests.
    The principle of national independence is vital to national reunification.
    If foreign forces are allowed to interfere in the issue of national reunification, the issue of retaking the usurped national sovereignty, it will complicate the issue and lead to nothing but a catastrophic situation after all.
    The principle of national independence serves as a sure guarantee for strengthening the driving force and increasing its role in carrying out the cause of reunification.
    Though all the Koreans form a driving force of national reunification its might does not get strong by itself. It can prove strong only when all the members of the nation unite as one, highly aware of being responsible for the reunification movement.
    The success made by the Korean nation in implementing the historic June 15 joint declaration for the last 4 years proves that the principle of independence serves as a banner of unity and a fundamental idea of accelerating the independent reunification.
    Noting that it is the unanimous will of the Korean people desirous of independent reunification to hold aloft the banner of national independence, the article stresses that the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration serves as the only treasured sword enabling the Koreans to achieve national reunification as it calls for settling the issue of the country's reunification independently free from any foreign interference.