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Efforts for New Era of Reunification and Prosperity Called for

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

   Pyongyang, January 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article calls for strictly implementing the slogan of "Open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by pooling the efforts of our nation!" put forward in the joint New Year editorial.
    All the compatriots should turn out with fresh resolution and confidence in the nation-wide struggle for carrying out the October 4 Declaration for the Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration, as clarified in the joint editorial, the article says.
    It goes on:
    Anyone who aspires after independence and reunification, not flunkeyism and dependence on outsiders, should respect the idea of "By our nation itself" and make positive contribution to developing the inter-Korean relations on this basis.
    Treachery of the pro-U.S. sycophantic forces swimming against the trend of the times towards the independent reunification and hindering the development of the inter-Korean relations and the cause of reunification in collusion with foreign forces should never be tolerated.
    The U.S. and the south Korean military should discontinue the joint military drills and arms buildup for aggression on the DPRK, as they are contrary to the cause for peace in the Korean Peninsula, and remove the U.S. military bases and the aggression forces from south Korea.
    The idea of confrontation regarding the fellow countrymen as the archenemy should be discarded in south Korea, and cooperation and exchanges between the north and the south should be conducted in such a way as to substantially contribute to the unity and reunification of the nation.
    The political parties and organizations and people from all walks of life in the north and the south should support the October 4 declaration and subordinate everything to achieving the fellow countrymen's desire for reunification by closely uniting as one for the great cause of the nation regardless of their political ideals and principles or their political interests and policies.