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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Holding High Banner of "By Our Nation Itself"

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

    Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- All the proud reality and successes achieved in the nation's reunification movement and the inter-Korean relations are the great victory of the June 15 joint declaration and the precious fruition of the idea of "By our nation itself", says Rodong Sinmun today in a by-lined article. It continues:
    The slogan of the national reunification set forth in the joint slogans of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea issued on the occasion of its 60th anniversary serves as a programme of the struggle to be consistently maintained and implemented by the Korean nation on the road for the national reunification.
    The basic idea and spirit of the joint slogans are to build an independent and prosperous reunified power on the land of three thousand-ri and thus implement the last instructions of President Kim Il Sung for reunification of the country to the letter.
    The three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, three charters for national reunification, laid down by the President are guidelines to be observed in reunifying the country.
    The three charters for national reunification are run through with the spirit of national independence regarding the national sovereignty and dignity as the life and soul. They embody the noble love for the country and the nation with which to achieve the inter-Korean reconciliation and the great unity of the whole nation and peacefully reunify the country.
    No matter which the wind may blow the Koreans should accomplish the cause of national reunification on the basis of the three charters for national reunification.
    The Koreans who support the joint declaration and implement it are patriots and those going against the declaration are traitors. Neutrality can not exist in the attitude towards the joint declaration and the people in the north and the south of Korea and overseas including the authorities should turn out in the implementation of the joint declaration.
    The viewpoint and stand that the nation is responsible for reunification and the principle of national independence should be maintained and carried into practice.
    The efforts should be made to bring about the whirlwind of the independent reunification against the U.S. under the uplifted banner of the cooperation for national independence and peace against war and reunification and patriotism.
    All legal and institutional mechanisms lying in the way of the national reconciliation and unity, the root cause of the institutional and ideological confrontation between the north and the south of Korea, should be removed.
    Only victory will be in store for the Korean nation who turn out as one in the sacred struggle for building the independent and prosperous reunified power on the land of three thousand-ri under the banner of "By our nation itself".