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Intensified Struggle for National Independence Called for

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

    Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- National independence helps the Koreans exalt their self-respect and dignity, reinforce their stand and viewpoint to carve out their destiny by their own efforts and calls for not tolerating any factor of violating the interests of the nation. Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    National independence guarantees the existence and development, dignity and prosperity of the nation.
    The DPRK has firmly protected its sovereignty, regarding it as life and soul ever since the very day of its foundation. It has shaped even a line its own way without depending on foreign forces and carried out even a policy in the interests of the people. It has strong pluck and high dignity as it has established Juche in politics. The Koreans' movement for the reunification of the country is aimed at establishing sovereignty throughout Korea.
    National independence serves as an ideological and moral basis for national unity. The inter-Korean relations and the reunification movement have witnessed many remarkable events and successes over the past five years since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration because the Koreans have pooled their efforts, transcending the differences in ideology, idea, system, religious belief, party affiliation and position, under the banner of "By our nation itself" based on the principle of national independence.
    The Koreans successfully held the grand festival for national reunification with splendor in Pyongyang in the spirit of "By our nation itself," irrespective of ideology and authorities and non-governmental organizations, in June which marked the 5th anniversary of the joint declaration, thus strikingly demonstrating to the world the might of the national unity and the will of the nation to reunify the country independently.
    The June 15 era of reunification can triumph only thanks to the efforts of the Koreans united close in the spirit of national independence.
    National independence serves as a treasured sword for protecting the national interests.
    This treasured sword alone can shatter the anti-national, anti-reunification moves of foreign forces and the pro-U.S. forces in south Korea.
    The day of independent reunification is bound to break before long only when all Koreans realize cooperation for national independence, more firmly equipped with the conscience of national independence, the life and soul and might of the nation.