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Rodong Sinmun on National Independence

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

   Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- National independence is a key to solving the question of national reunification and serves as lifeline in the cause of reunifying the country.
    Rodong Sinmun Monday stresses this in a signed article.
    Independence is not only the purpose but also the fundamental principle of the struggle for national reunification, the article says, and goes on:
    Without the principle and stand of national independence is it impossible to expect the realization of the national reunification, the problem related to the destiny of the Korean nation. National reunification precisely means independence and vice versa.
    The history of the movement for national reunification proves eloquently that national independence is the main stand that should be maintained by the Koreans.
    The more persistently the foreign forces and their followers have resorted to intervention moves and treacherous dependence on outsiders, the more steadfastly and dynamically the Party and government of the DPRK have maintained the stand of independence and advanced the national reunification movement along the road of national independence.
    The vitality and might of national independence is being more strikingly displayed in the June 15 era of reunification in which the independent reunification movement of the Korean nation has been put on a new high stage of history.
    The Koreans have keenly realized through history and reality that national independence serves as the lifeline of the national reunification movement and the only way for reunification and survival of the nation is to firmly keep the independent stand.
    Today it is the unshakable determination and will of the Korean nation to advance toward the independent reunification and peace and prosperity invariably holding the banner of "By our nation itself".