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Intensive Patriotic Movement under Banner of "By Our Nation Itself" Urged

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

   Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Delegations of the authorities of the north and the south, jointly with members of delegations of organizations from all social strata at home and abroad, held the grand festival for national reunification with splendor to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. The festival marked a major milestone in traditionalizing the grand commemoration of June 15 as "Day of By Our Nation Itself". This is what Rodong Sinmun says in an article Thursday, which reads in part:
    Today the Korean nation should hold ever higher the banner of "By Our Nation Itself" to defend peace in this land and vigorously advance towards the destination of independent reunification, breaking through the troubles caused by the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad.
    The idea of "By Our Nation Itself" is a powerful common weapon of the Korean nation ensuring victory in the movement for independent reunification.
    This idea is, in short, the idea of national independence that is the hard core in the settlement of national issues. Only when the principle of national independence is kept, can a victory be guaranteed in the struggle to oppose outside forces' moves for war and aggression and establish the national sovereignty throughout the Korean Peninsula and reunify the divided country.
    The whole nation should wage with redoubled vigor the patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity under the banner of "By Our Nation Itself".
    The road of national reunification and bright future lie in national independence, the way of defending the destiny of the nation in peace against war, and the key to national reunification in great national unity.
    It is fortunate that the authorities and civilians committed themselves to an intensive three-point patriotic movement at the June 15 festival.
    All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas should put together their patriotic purpose and will and dynamically wage the three-point patriotic movement under the uplifted banner of "By Our Nation Itself," thus adding shine to the June 15 era of reunification.