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All Koreans Called upon to Achieve National Independence

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

   Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- National independence serves as a main principle to be adhered to in achieving Korea's reunification as it is the core of the issue of reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
    A solution to the issue of national reunification aimed at defending and realizing independence of the nation would be unthinkable without national independence, the article notes, and goes on:
    Every nation is entitled to be responsible for its destiny and carve it out according to its own will. Koreans should achieve the reunification of the country by themselves free from any interference of foreign forces. Only then is it possible to successfully resolve the issue of reunification according to the desire and interests of the nation.
    If one tries to solve the issue of national reunification, an issue of winning back the sovereignty of the nation usurped by foreign forces, in reliance upon foreign forces, it would only end up finding oneself under the yoke of slavery.
    The issue of Korea's reunification pertaining to the Korean nation's right to self-determination can be successfully solved only through its concerted efforts.
    For the divided Korean nation national independence precisely means reunification and vice versa.
    The historic Pyongyang summit and the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration ushered in an era of independent reunification, the first of its kind in the nation's history of the reunification movement. This was a shining fruition of the protracted struggle of the Koreans to achieve the reunification of the country independently.
    What is important for the north and the south to achieve national independence at present is to firmly maintain the stand of attaching importance to the nation. This stand precisely represents national independence and its principle can be implemented only when the above-said stand is maintained. Koreans can achieve genuine national reconciliation and accelerate the independent reunification only when they always place the will and interests of the nation above anything else and protect them and remain true to the principle of national independence under any situation and circumstances.