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Putting Spurs to Reunification Movement Called for

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

   Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation should put greater spurs to the patriotic movement for reunification and open up a heyday of the cause of reunification this year, true to the calls of the joint editorial, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article. Attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity--these are three tasks the Korean nation should fulfill for national reunification this year, the article says, and goes on:
    Attaching importance to the nation is the basic stand and the maxim the Korean nation should maintain in accomplishing the cause of national reunification at the present time.
    The U.S. imperialists are working overtime to provoke a new war, seeking the division of the Korean nation and the inter-Korean confrontation to serve their hegemonic strategy and meet their interests for aggression. It is a treachery negating peace and reunification to attach importance to the outsiders who are pressing for division and war.
    The stand of attaching importance to the nation is inseparably linked to the idea of "By our nation itself." The stance and stand of attaching importance to the nation cannot be expected from one bereft of this idea.
    Defending peace is a vital task related to the destiny of the nation and a crucial task on which hinges the victory of the movement for independent reunification.
    The struggle to defend peace against war is a just and patriotic struggle to defend the foundation of the life of the Korean nation and, at the same time, a positive struggle for reunification to drive back the desperate challenges of the warlike forces opposed to reunification at home and abroad, promote national reconciliation and unity and achieve a shining victory of the cause of national reunification. To defend peace against war is a fighting task common to the nation to which it should give priority this year.
    The unity of the entire nation is a basic factor guaranteeing victory in this year's struggle.
    National unity is an important task which the Korean nation should consistently maintain in the whole process of the cause of national reunification as it is a decisive guarantee for independent reunification and constitutes its essence.
    To achieve the unity of the whole nation is the basic way of building the driving force of national reunification and enlarging and strengthening it.
    Putting fresh muscles into the great alliance against the conservatives in south Korea tallies with the purpose of the movement for a great unity of the nation to closely rally broad patriotic forces for reunification as one and meets the present requirement to carry out a progressive reform in south Korea.