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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Inheriting Spirit of Korean Nation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- It is of weighty importance in the struggle for terminating the humiliating history of subordination and realizing the independent reunification to preserve the spirit of the Korean nation, source of its life and might, Rodong Sinmun today says in a by-lined article. Only when this spirit, which is rooted in Tangun's Korea and serves as an engine for the development of the national history, is properly succeeded, is it possible for the Korean nation to firmly maintain the independent principle in the efforts for shaping out its destiny and achieve the reunification and prosperity of the country by its united efforts, the article says, and goes on: To well preserve and give full play to the national spirit, an embodiment of the nation's history of 5,000 years and its superiority, is urgently needed to put an end to the foreign domination, retake the national sovereignty and achieve the national cohesion and reunification.
    The Korean nation should reject the foreign forces and develop and apply the national spirit of increasing the awareness of national independence so as to defend its territory, sovereignty and character from ceaseless aggression moves of the outsiders and ensure its independent development.
    To establish the national spirit is a demand of the present situation in which the aggressive acts of the foreign forces and the treacherous actions of their followers are getting evermore pronounced and serious.
    The United States is these days cooking up new pro-American conservative bodies called "Citizen Solidarity for Freedom" and "Shout of People" and the like in south Korea. This is part of the U.S. moves to disintegrate the south Korean society and benumb the people's national consciousness, that is, a policy of exterminating the Korean nation.
    The Japanese reactionaries, too, are stepping up their moves for revival of militarism and reinvasion. They persistently distort history in textbooks and seek to grab Tok Islet, instead of apologizing and compensating for the past crimes Japan committed during its aggression of Korea.
    Only when the Koreans invariably preserve the national spirit and fully display it, can the spirit of independence prevail all over the country and can they accelerate the cause of independent reunification, shattering the outsiders' aggressive moves by their concerted efforts.
    All the Koreans should reject the anti-national cooperation with foreign forces and realize cooperation for national independence, cooperation for peace against war and cooperation for reunification and patriotism to strikingly show how strong and mighty the spirit of the nation aspiring after independence against the outsiders is.