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Korean National Unity Called for

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

   Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- National unity is a basic precondition and a firm guarantee for national reunification. The issue of Korean reunification is, in essence, an issue of establishing national sovereignty throughout Korea and, at the same time, an issue of rejoining the severed blood ties of the nation and a matter of having the north and the south get reconciled and go united as one and the same nation.
    Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article.
    National reunification can come true only when all Koreans display strong desire for national unity and attain nation-wide concord, it says.
    It goes on:
    The separatist forces at home and abroad have become more undisguised in their moves to check the unity of the nation and reunification.
    Only when all Koreans unite as one and increase the strength of the patriotic forces of reunification in every way is it possible to meet their challenge to reunification and positively promote the development of the inter-Korean relations and durable peace of the country and prosperity common to the nation.
    The era of national unity represents the era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity.
    Independent reunification and peace and prosperity are not to serve the purpose of only one side of the two parts of Korea but to accomplish the nation-wide sacred cause of reunification and patriotism for all Koreans.
    If all countrymen at home and abroad are to achieve firm unity, they should hold high the banner of "By our nation itself."
    The idea of "By our nation itself" clarified in the June 15 joint declaration is an idea of great national unity as it helps accomplish the cause of independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the Koreans as early as possible.
    All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad have steadily advanced the June 15 era of reunification by pooling their will and efforts and cooperating with each other irrespective of ideology, ism and system. This stirring reality would be unthinkable without the idea of "By our nation itself."
    The above-said idea serves as guidelines for unity that the Koreans should hold fast to in the struggle for independent reunification and peace and prosperity.