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Inter-Korean Confrontation, Mistrust Coming to End

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- The north and the south of Korea have totally stopped their hostile propaganda activities in all the areas along the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and completed the first-stage withdrawal of all the propaganda means. The dramatic event gives a great joy to the entire Koreans in the north, south and abroad.
    The MDL has been the main hotbed of gravely threatening the stability and peace on the Korean peninsula.
    Moreover, the propaganda activities had been fixed in a well-arranged system and their means and intensity escalated since the Korean War (1950-1953). So, instability and a hair-trigger situation has persisted in the areas.
    The suspension of the propaganda activities, a direct and concentrated expression of antagonism toward each other, and the withdrawal of their means eloquently show that the curtain is being brought down in the history of confrontation and distrust after half a century.
    Epochal changes have taken place in the reunification movement of the Korean nation since the adoption of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration in Juche 89 (2000).
    Dialogue, contacts, cooperation and exchange are brisk between the north and the south in the political, economic, cultural and other fields and solidarity and unity among pro-reunification movement organizations are being strengthened. The projects of relinking the severed railways and roads in the east and west coastal areas are going on, the construction of the Kaesong industrial zone has already started and sea and air routes opened between the two parts of the country.
    The radical changes in the development of the north-south relations are a fine result of the idea of "by our nation itself ", an idea for paving the way of the country's reunification under the banner of national independence.