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Preserving National Character Essential for Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans should preserve national character and, on this basis, achieve a great national unity and the reunification of the country, cherishing the pride of being a nation with a superior character, in response to the demand of the times, urges Rodong Sinmun in an article Thursday.
    It is a principled demand in shaping the destiny of the nation to uphold and preserve the national character, states the author of the article, and goes on:
    This stands out with greater importance under the actual conditions of Korea which remains divided.
    The national character is the very foundation for achieving a great unity of the whole nation and reunification of the country, tiding over the institutional differences temporarily created by the division of the nation and differences in ideology and idea, political view, religious belief, and class and social status.
    When the national character is made the foundation, the whole nation can be united in one and the country be reunified without difficulty, regardless of differing social systems in the north and south.
    Both the great unity of the nation and the reunification of the country are for independence of the nation. Neither the unity of the nation nor its reunification can be achieved without upholding and firmly preserving national character.
    After all, it is an indispensable requirement for the great unity of the nation and the reunification of the county to uphold and more actively preserve the national character.
    The Workers' Party of Korea has correctly kept alive the national character, with a deep penetration into the importance of its preservation. It has always set store by the national character, firmly preserved the superior national traditions of the Korean people and incorporated them in all spheres.
    The Party has always made the national character as the important basis of national unity and reunification.
    All the policies and lines of the Party for national reunification are run through with the noble idea of national independence and patriotic spirit to treasure and preserve the national character.
    All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas of Korea should actively keep alive the excellent national character, bearing in mind that preserving national character is a principled demand of independent development of the nation and the reunification of the country.