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Three Tasks for Independent Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial puts forward the slogan, "Add brilliance to the June 15 reunification era by attaching importance to the nation, maintaining peace and achieving unity!" The slogan reflects the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration which solemnly declared at home and abroad that the issue of national reunification would be settled in an independent way with the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
    Now the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula are under grave threat due to the obstructions of the separatists within and without.
    The U.S. is dead set against the independent reunification of the Korean nation and increases the danger of a new war, nuclear war, obstructing the reconciliation and unity of the nation. The "Grand National Party" and other pro-U.S. conservatives are taking the road of north-south confrontation, blindly following the U.S.
    A councilor of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland Jon Pyong Hun in an interview with KCNA said that the reality calls on the whole nation to turn out as one in the efforts to implement the three tasks--attaching importance to the nation, maintaining peace and achieving unity.
    He went on:
    Attaching importance to the nation is a basic stand the Koreans who have been subjected to division and war by foreign forces for 60-odd years should hold fast to. National demand and interests should be regarded as an absolute yardstick in dealing with all the affairs, and the principles of maintaining independence and giving priority to and defending the nation in the face of any pressure and blackmail of outsiders should be advocated.
    Peace is a key to the reunification of the country and common prosperity of the nation. All the Korean people should turn out in the struggle for peace against war in order to smash the military pressure, war exercise and military buildup that threaten the nation, and launch a dynamic campaign to drive the U.S. occupation troops, the root cause of war, out of south Korea.
    To achieve unity is an urgent demand of the reunification movement.
    Unity is a way to national existence and prime mover of the cause of the country's reunification. The Koreans in the north, south and abroad should bring the atmosphere of reconciliation and unity to a crescendo under the banner of independent reunification, and further promote solidarity and alliance between different reunification movement organizations with the June 15 All-Korean Committee as an umbrella body. A heyday of the cause of independent reunification will be certain to come in this land only when all Koreans in the north, south and abroad successfully carry out the three tasks--attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity.