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All Koreans Called upon to Fully Display Korean Nation-First Spirit
Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- The Korean nation-first spirit serves as an invincible banner to be always held aloft by all Koreans in the sacred struggle for independent reunification and peace and prosperity. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.

The Korean nation-first spirit is an ideological basis for establishing national sovereignty and the source of the spirit of national independence, the article notes, and goes on:

This spirit reflects the unanimous will of all compatriots to firmly protect the country and nation from foreign forces' war of aggression.

The Korean nation has a good tradition in which it has fully demonstrated the spirit of the nation with which it never yielded to foreign forces' moves for aggression.

The above-said spirit also represents the firm will of the Korean nation to foil the foreign forces' moves for a war of aggression to disturb the peace and security of the country by carrying forward its glorious tradition of the struggle against aggression.

It is an important task facing the Korean nation to oppose war and defend peace.

The U.S. imperialists are now resorting to adventurous moves to carry out their policy to dominate the DPRK through military invasion despite the opposition of the whole nation and the world peace-loving people.

The will to frustrate foreign forces' moves for aggression and war and firmly defend the peace of the country in a do-or-die spirit is a clear manifestation of the Korean nation-first spirit.

Independent reunification and peace and prosperity are what the Koreans unanimously desire and demand.

The spirit of "By our nation itself" enshrined in the historic June 15 joint declaration is the idea of independent reunification and peace and prosperity based on the Korean nation-first spirit.

It is beyond doubt that a rich and powerful reunified country will appear on the land of 3,000-ri when the Koreans hold aloft the banner of the Korean nation-first spirit which reinforces their pride and self-confidence that it is the best and their faith and will to energetically carve out their destiny by themselves.

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