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Rodong Sinmun on South-South Cooperation

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

    Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The target of development raised by the developing countries in the new century is to bring about a new turn in all fabrics of social life including economy and culture in conformity with the world's trend of development so as to reach the level of advanced countries. To this end, developing countries should develop south-south cooperative relations. Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article Sunday. To strengthen south-south cooperation is one of the most effective ways for developing countries to make socio-economic progress and achieve prosperity in the new century, the article notes, and goes on:
    Developing countries are working hard to settle through south-south cooperation the issues of pioneering new scientific and technological fields in which much effort and many funds are needed, introducing latest machinery and equipment and making a rational use of natural resources.
    For the last decades they have made great progress in the scientific and technological and economic fields while building a new society. Not a few remarkable achievements were registered. Some developing countries have retained supremacy in ultra modern scientific and technological field. If developing countries strengthen cooperation and exchange in those fields while consolidating their achievements, they can make great progress by themselves, without calling for help from the imperialists.
    The imperialists are desperately working in every way to hinder developing countries from advancing under the uplifted slogan of collective self-reliance but in vain.
    The position of developing countries is rising and their right to say and influence are increasing in the international arena and their collective efforts are promoting the socio-economic progress and development in the new century. This is exerting great influence on the trend of global independence in the new century as it displays the validity and vitality of south-south cooperation.