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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Holding High Banner of June 15 Joint Declaration

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

   Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The June 15 joint declaration is a programme for reunification common to the nation and a landmark of national reunification as it reflects the will and desire of all the Koreans for independent reunification, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article.
    There can be national reconciliation and unity and triumphant advance of the cause of independent reunification only when the joint declaration is thoroughly implemented, the article notes, and goes on:
    To hold high the banner of the joint declaration is essential for firmly adhering to the principle of independence in the movement for national reunification.
    This helps the Koreans responsible for achieving national reunification settle independently its issue through their concerted efforts. It is beyond doubt that only when all the Koreans firmly maintain the principle of independence in the movement for national reunification in the idea of "By our nation itself", the basic spirit of the joint declaration, can they bring about a decisive phase of national reunification.
    Holding higher the banner of the joint declaration is also a realistic requirement for waging the movement for national reunification nationwide.
    The foreign aggressors who divided Korea cannot bring reunification to the Korean nation and it is absolutely impossible to settle the issue of national reunification as long as they are allowed to interfere in the issues of the nation. National reunification can be achieved only through a nationwide struggle of the Koreans who ardently desire national reunification and have enough strength and wisdom to attain it. This is the very lesson and truth taught by the history of the tragedy of national division to the Koreans. That is why all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should turn out as one in the struggle for national reunification under the banner of the joint declaration.
    No matter how the situation and circumstances may change in the future, the movement for national reunification will make dynamic progress thanks to the strong mental power of the Korean nation advancing under the uplifted banner of the joint declaration.