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Rodong Sinmun on Great Programme for Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- No one can deny or wipe out the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, the great programme for reunification common to the Korean nation both in name and reality.
    Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a signed article.
    Charging that the conservative ruling forces of south Korea are getting pronounced in the moves to overturn all the achievements made in the era of independent reunification while denying the above-said historic declarations, the article says:
    The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration serve as a basis for developing the inter-Korean relations and realizing the cause of national reunification as they clearly indicate the principles and ways for the reunification of the Korean nation and the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula.
    The main idea of the declarations is "By our nation itself", and it has become the basic spirit of the present era of independent reunification.
    The essence of this idea of "By our nation itself" is that Korea's reunification should be realized independently and peacefully by the united efforts of the Koreans responsible for it while thoroughly rejecting the aggressive and anti-reunification outsiders. It is the idea of national independence against foreign forces, the idea of great national unity and the idea for peace both in name and reality. Independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity are the cherished desire of the Korean nation, and they serve as the fundamental principle for national reunification and the only just way for realizing the cause of reunification.
    The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, which are the great reunification programme common to the nation and carry the unquestionable truth of national reunification, can never be a political bargaining object, and their significance in the history of the nation will never be impaired by any political charlatan's denial.
    The Lee Myung Bak group's moves to erase the declarations and bring the era of independent reunification back to the past era of confrontation are an action of swimming against the trend of the times and an intolerable treachery of doing harm to the fellow countrymen in collusion with the foreign forces.
    If such group's anti-reunification moves are allowed, it will be impossible to defend the precious gains achieved in the June 15 era of reunification and expect a victorious advance of the era of independent reunification.