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Nationwide Struggle against Outside Forces Urged

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

   Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- The March First Popular Uprising in Juche 8 (1919) 88 years ago was an eruption of the wrath of all people at the Japanese imperialists who illegally occupied Korea and resorted to brutal repression and looting against the Korean people, says Rodong Sinmun in an editorial today.
    Noting that the patriotic spirit of the uprising has been carried forward through generations, dynamically propelling the cause of national independence, the editorial goes on:
    What the people desired in the uprising was sovereignty and independence against Japan. President Kim Il Sung, the peerless patriot and legendary hero, put an end to the atrocious colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists by leading the heroic armed struggle to victory. After the liberation the U.S. imperialists placed south Korea under their military occupation. And when they provoked a war of aggression with the criminal scheme to realize their ambition for dominating Korea, the Korean nation gave them a taste of its fist and won a great victory in the war.
    The peace of the country and the dignity of the nation can be defended and the historic cause of national reunification be accomplished only by a resolute struggle for independence against outsiders. This is the truth engraved ever deeper on the hearts of the Koreans today.
    All the fellow countrymen should wage a vehement struggle to achieve national sovereignty on the nationwide scale, holding aloft the banner of national independence against outside forces.
    The whole nation should pool its strength and put up a stiff fight against the U.S. strategy of domination over Korea and anti-DPRK hostile policy.
    The reinvasion design of the Japanese reactionaries, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation, must be thwarted. With bitter resentment at the Japanese imperialists, all the Koreans should deal a decisive counter blow to the anti-DPRK sanctions by the Japanese forces of aggression and smash their anti-DPRK moves and make Japan pay a proper price for its past crimes through a nationwide anti-Japanese struggle.
    If the domination and interference of the outsiders are to be brought to an end and national sovereignty be achieved, the "Grand National Party," a group of traitors allied with outside forces, must be pushed out of the arena of history.
    All the fellow countrymen should work strenuously to see that importance is attached to the nation, peace defended and unity achieved under the banner of independence against outside forces and thus bring earlier the historic day when the desire of the March First fighters will be realized and the dignity of the reunified Korean nation be displayed all over the world.