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Rodong Sinmun on National Independence

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

   Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- National independence serves as an ideological treasured sword and a banner of struggle that make it possible for the Koreans to improve the north-south relations and bring about a turning phase for national reunification by their concerted efforts.
    Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a signed article.
    The present situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula calls on the north and the south to steadfastly adhere to the principle of national independence, the article says, and goes on:
    The United States is inciting the south Korean authorities to confrontation with the fellow countrymen while drastically beefing up its aggression forces in south Korea as ones for preemptive attack on the DPRK. The conservative ruling forces of south Korea, who have not an iota of consciousness of national independence, are hell-bent on confrontation with the DPRK, zealously following the U.S. imperialists' hostile policy toward it. Advocating "priority to relationship" and cooperation with outsiders, the Lee Myung Bak group is getting evermore undisguised in its moves against the fellow countrymen and reunification. In this way it seeks to totally block the north-south relations, overturn all the achievements made in the era of June 15 reunification and leave Korea as a whole to the tender mercy of outsiders.
    If the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad are allowed to commit such moves contrary to the principle of national independence, it will be impossible to expect either the development of the inter-Korean relations or progress in the movement for independent reunification.
    The inter-Korean relations should be developed on the principle of national independence as this is an internal issue of the nation to be settled by the united efforts of the Koreans.
    The Korean nation has favorable conditions enough to develop the north-south relations and the reunification movement on the above-said principle.
    The Koreans, who are stronger in national identity than any other people, are fully capable of solving the matters of the north-south relations and the national reunification independently on the basis of the spirit of national independence.