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This Year's Slogan for Reunification Lauded

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

   Pyongyang, January 12 (KCNA) -- "Add brilliance to the June 15 reunification era by attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity!" the slogan set forth in the joint New Year editorial, is a just call reflecting the Koreans' desire and will for reunification and the current requirements of the movement for independent reunification that has entered a new phase of development, declares Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Friday. Attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity are the major fighting tasks of the Korean nation at present and herein lie the path along which the Korean nation should advance, the basic stand and maxim to be maintained in the reunification movement and the fighting target which must be attained in the movement, the article says, and goes on:
    Attaching importance to the nation is a basic stand the Korean nation should firmly maintain in the inter-Korean relations and all spheres of the movement for reunification.
    The Korean nation can bolster its strength in every way and foil any attempt of the outsiders to stem the advancement of the June 15 reunification era when all the Koreans firmly adhere to the stand of attaching importance to the nation, proud of being a homogeneous nation with a 5,000 year-long history.
    Defending peace is also one of the major essential requirements in the June 15 reunification era.
    The new war provocation moves in which the U.S. imperialists are getting more blatant these days gravely threaten the peace of the country and the security of the nation. It is impossible to achieve independent reunification and expect a successful progress of the undertakings for north-south reconciliation and cooperation without defending peace at present.
    National unity is a decisive guarantee for achieving independent reunification by dynamically advancing the progress of the June 15 reunification era. When all the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas become one-minded and achieve great national unity on this basis, the fundamental problems will be resolved in the movement for independent reunification and then all other issues be easily settled. In this sense, we say that great national unity is, immediately, national reunification.