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Rodong Sinmun Observes DPRK's Diamond Jubilee

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

   Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea represents the sovereign rights and interests of the Korean nation and serves as a banner of the national unity and reunification.
    Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The DPRK has regarded it as its noble historic mission to protect the destiny of the country and nation. It has firmly guaranteed the struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country by prevailing over the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad seeking permanent division and war on the Korean peninsula with the might of justice.
    The DPRK, considering national reunification as the most urgent task facing the nation since the day of its birth, has made every sincere effort to achieve it through the concerted efforts of the Koreans from an independent stand.
    In the 1970s of the last century the DPRK laid down the three principles-- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity-- as a programme for reunification common to the nation through the July 4 joint declaration and waged a struggle for its materialization, thus bringing about a historic turning point in the cause of national reunification.
    The Korean nation could witness a great surge in the movement for national reunification in the 1980s and the 1990s because the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation, the most just and realistic programmes for reunification, clearly indicated the way for the Koreans to follow in their efforts to achieve reunification.
    The adoption of the historic June 15 joint declaration marked a historic occasion of converting the north-south relations of distrust and confrontation into the ties of reconciliation, unity and cooperation.
    The adoption of the October 4 declaration, a practical programme for implementing the June 15 joint declaration, in Pyongyang last year was the brilliant fruition of the will and efforts of the DPRK to develop the inter-Korean relations and achieve the peace of the country and the prosperity common to the nation.
    The DPRK is standing as an invulnerable fortress firmly protecting and successfully carving out the destiny of the nation with the might of Songun.
    It has firmly reinforced the self-reliant defense capability to protect the destiny of the nation, ensure the peace of the country and realize the peaceful reunification in the head-on confrontation with the U.S. imperialists keeping their armed forces in south Korea, holding aloft the banner of Songun.
    The self-defensive war deterrent of the DPRK provides a sure guarantee for independent reunification and peace and prosperity.
    Thanks to the Songun politics of the DPRK peace has been preserved on the Korean Peninsula, the atmosphere of dialogue was created and the movement for national reunification made dynamic progress.
    Rosy is the future of the DPRK advancing under the great banner of Songun.
    The cherished desire of the Korean nation for independent reunification and peace and prosperity is sure to come true as the DPRK is standing firm as an indestructible fortress for carving out the destiny of the nation.