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New Era of Reunification and Prosperity Will Come in 2008

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

   Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are aflame with the zeal to open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by joining efforts of the whole nation in response to the joint New Year editorial.
    The slogan of the joint editorial "Open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by pooling the efforts of our nation!" indicates correct and realistic direction and way of this year's struggle for national reunification whereby to thoroughly implement the October 4 declaration under the banner of "by our nation itself" set forth in the June 15 joint declaration.
    Through the past history and reality the Korean people have felt in their fiber that independent reunification and peace and prosperity are quite possible only if all the compatriots in the north, the south and abroad are determined.
    An Kyong Ho, director of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, told KCNA that the north-south relations dating back to the opening of the June 15 era of reunification had laid the foundation of national reunification and prosperity, promoting the reconciliation and unity of the nation and rejoining the veins of blood and land in the past years in the spirit of "by our nation itself". The call of the joint editorial to open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity, he added, is an entirely just and realistic one representing the unanimous purpose and desire of the fellow countrymen.
    U Yong Gak, an unconverted long-term prisoner, expressed his firm conviction that victory is certain when the Korean nation goes along the road of independent reunification indicated by Kim Jong Il, saying: The Korean people have been strong in the spirit of unity and pooled their efforts, wisdom and intelligence in the fight to achieve national independence from old times.
    Cha Son Mo, chief of staff of the Ministry of Land and Marine Transport, said the struggle for national reunification is still arduous and rigorous, but its victory is definite. He went on:
    The work for the development of the inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity is important in shaping the destiny of our nation. The Korean nation should carry it out independently, assuming the principal role.
    Kim Thaek Bong, a section chief of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, told KCNA that the Koreans are facing the important and honorable task to open up a new era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity.
    It is high time, he stressed, all the Koreans fulfilled their obligation and role in the noble patriotic struggle for accelerating the cause of independent reunification, closely united in the spirit of "by our nation itself" for national reunification, the great cause of the nation.