calendar>>October 30. 2008 Juche 97
Implementation of Inter-Korean Declarations Called for
Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Is a Socialist State of Juche with Invincible Might" is an immortal great programme for independent reunification as it correctly set forth important tasks to be fulfilled by the Korean nation in its struggle to achieve national reunification at present. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.

The work helps the Koreans renew their firm determination to achieve national reunification without fail with strong confidence in victory and optimism as it indicates the most correct orientation and ways to achieve the cause of reunification, the article notes, and goes on:

What is most important for achieving independent reunification at present is for all the Koreans to advance, holding aloft the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration.

The north-south relations are in the worst crisis and big hurdles are lying in the way of the movement for national reunification due to the obstructions of the U.S. and the traitorous and anti-reunification moves of the Lee Myung Bak group.

How to approach the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration is a touchstone which distinguishes inter-Korean concord from confrontation, reunification from division.

All the Koreans should decisively frustrate the moves of the Lee group to bring to naught the successes made in the June 15 era of reunification, negating the validity and vitality of the above-said declarations.

It is necessary to thoroughly embody the idea of "By our nation itself."

All the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should achieve national unity on the principle of national independence holding aloft the banner of "By our nation itself" and frustrate every move of the anti-reunification forces and certainly achieve the cause of national reunification with the might of idea of "By our nation itself."

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