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Rodong Sinmun on Idea of "By Our Nation Itself"

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

    Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday in an article says the idea of "By our nation itself" laid down in the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration is a bright beacon lighting the path of independently shaping the destiny of the nation and the banner of victory. The author of the article continues:
    Unless the Korean nation upholds the idea, it is impossible for it to sustain its existence, to say nothing of its development and prosperity, today when the U.S. imperialists are getting more desperate in their moves against it and its reunification, while challenging its reunification cause with strong-arm practices, unilateralism and undisguised interference and obstructions. "By our nation itself" is, indeed, the only way for the Korean nation to independently shape its destiny.
    The core of the idea is national independence.
    As specified in the joint declaration, national reunification should be achieved independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, the master of reunification. Independently solving the reunification issue is the core and main idea of the joint declaration.
    By stating that the reunification issue should be settled by the united strength of the Korean nation itself, the north-south joint declaration brought together the north and the south, which had been hostile to each other, as the parties directly concerned with reunification, and turned the inter-Korean relations into those of reconciliation and reunification and created a climate for defusing military tension and danger of war on the Korean Peninsula. The idea of "By our nation itself" sets the great unity of the nation as the indispensable requisite.
    The movement of the Korean nation for reunification which has advanced through trying ordeals and difficulties over the past five years has patently attested to the philosophical principle that the destiny and the future of the nation depend on unity. Our nation would defend everything and emerge victorious, given unity, but would lose everything and become a slave without it. This is the lesson taught by the history of the reunification movement. Stressing that the Korean nation is a homogeneous nation with the same ancestry and language and the same culture and history, the article concludes: The Korean nation can closely unite, transcending differences in idea and ideology, political view and religious belief, class and social stratum, and this will display inexhaustible might, provided that all the members of the nation in the north, the south and overseas advance toward national reunification together, putting the common interests of the nation in the foreground, guided by the single idea of patriotism.