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"By Our Nation Itself", Idea for Peace and Reunification

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

    Pyongyang, May 23 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday in an article says that "By our nation itself," which is deeply engraved on the hearts of all the Koreans at home and abroad, is the most proper idea of the June 15 era for the existence and development of the Korean nation. Noting that uniting the strength of the Koreans is the basic way for removing the danger of a war and achieving a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula and realizing national reconciliation and reunification, the author of the article goes on:
    There are 70 million Koreans in the north and the south of the Korean Peninsula having vital interests in peace. When the Koreans pool strength and wisdom, it is quite possible to check and frustrate outside forces' moves to provoke a war.
    The Korean nation, though bisected by outside forces, has already been closely united in idea on the road to peace against war for its common desire for peace. No outside force can match the united strength of the Korean nation all out to defend its life and destiny.
    When the Koreans, who oppose aggressive outside forces and love peace, fight hand in hand, peace on the Korean Peninsula can well be consolidated.
    However frantically the outside forces may run about to provoke a war on the peninsula, peace can be defended, if the Korean nation, the master of this land, stands against them in unison and fight them with national cooperation. The reunification of the country can be achieved in the common interests of the nation only when the outside forces are decisively rejected and the compatriots in the north and the south directly concerned with it sit down knee-to-knee and explore the way.
    However desperately outside forces may interfere, the way will be opened, provided those concerned with reunification pool their will and wisdom and cooperate with each other. This is clearly proved by the brilliant achievements made in the development of the inter-Korean relations and the movement for the country's reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
    Peace and reunification, the basic conditions for the existence and development of the Korean nation, are firmly guaranteed by the might of "By our nation itself," the basic idea of the June 15 era of reunification. This idea is the most reasonable mode of existence of the Korean nation today when outside forces are past control in their moves of aggression and anti-reunification.
    When the Koreans unite their strength, there is nothing to fear and beyond their reach. All the Koreans in the north and the south should invariably preserve and apply the idea of "By our nation itself," holding fast to it as the motto for shaping the destiny of the nation and the lifeline of the movement for the country's reunification.