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Rodong Sinmun on Three Tasks before National Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- The tasks of attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity serve as a banner of the patriotic struggle for reunification as they are based on the three principles of national reunification, programme common to the nation, which President Kim Il Sung put forward and the north and the south confirmed in the July 4 joint statement, stresses Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    Holding fast to the stand of attaching importance to the nation is an essential requirement for applying and observing the principle of independence in the struggle for national reunification.
    Attaching importance to the nation is a clear manifestation of the independent stand and independence is the core and lifeline in solving the reunification issue.
    All the Koreans should strictly maintain the transparent stand of attaching importance to the nation despite whatever unexpected and complicated situation and cope with it. It is also necessary for them to categorically reject the outside forces' interference in the internal affairs of the nation and domination moves. And they should never tolerate the pro-U.S. sycophantic traitors cooperating with the outside forces while attaching greater importance to the outsiders than to the nation.
    The struggle to defend peace is the just patriotic struggle to ease the tension and remove the danger of a war on the Korean Peninsula and thus create peaceful environment for national reunification.
    All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas should turn out as one in the struggle for peace against war and decisively shatter the moves of aggression and war that threaten the Korean nation and harass peace on this land so as to defend the dignity and destiny of the nation. They should put the earliest possible end to the U.S. forces' continued presence in south Korea aimed at domination and aggression.
    The struggle to achieve national unity represents the one to build the driving force for national reunification.
    All the reunification movement organizations and Koreans from all walks of life in the north and the south and overseas should consolidate the unity with the June 15 All-Korean Committee, a nationwide organization for reunification movement, as a centre and steadily boost solidarity and alliance through the movement for reunification. The south Korean people should work harder to ostracize the reactionary conservative forces including the Grand National Party of south Korea who are making desperate efforts to reverse the June 15 reunification era to the era of confrontation in the past, flatly denying the idea of "By our nation itself."