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Rodong Sinmun on Cornerstone of National Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- National independence is the unchangeable cornerstone in the movement for national reunification.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
    In order to victoriously advance the cause of national reunification, it is important to firmly maintain the principle of settling all problems with the stand for national independence, the article says, and goes on:
    A nation is responsible for its destiny and nobody can replace it in carving out its destiny.
    Dependence on outsiders can never solve the question of national reunification.
    The independent stand which the Korean nation should maintain in the June 15 era of reunification is the stand of placing the dignity and interests of the nation above anything else and settling the question of national reunification by united efforts of Koreans.
    "By our nation itself" is the consistent idea of national independence, the idea that calls for solving the problem of reunification, the issue of the nation, in keeping with the will and interests of the nation by Koreans themselves, free from outsiders' interference.
    The afore-said idea clarified in the June 15 joint declaration is a banner of the times the Korean nation should invariably hold high.
    The stand of national independence should be manifested in the resolute struggle against the treachery of the flunkeyist traitors hindering the national reconciliation and unity in collusion with outside forces while turning aside from the trend of the times toward the independent reunification.
    All Koreans should conduct a vigorous struggle in firm solidarity to put an end to the existence of legal and institutional mechanisms harmful to the development of the north-south relations and national reunification.
    The most vivid expression of patriotism for the Korean nation is to work hard to achieve the national reunification by the might of the nation itself under the banner of national independence, the article stresses.