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Implementation of North-South Joint Declaration Called for
Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- In order to independently achieve the country's reunification in conformity with the will and desire of the Koreans it is necessary to thoroughly implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for putting it into practice, observes Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article.

It goes on:

The historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration serve as an immortal programme in the era of independent reunification. These declarations comprehensively deal with all principled issues of properly solving the issue of national reunification.

How to approach the above-said declarations is a touchstone to discern patriotism from treachery and reunification from division.

All Koreans who love the country and the nation and aspire after the country's reunification should support and uphold the said declarations and resolutely turn out in the patriotic struggle to implement them regardless of whether they live in the north and the south and overseas.

In order to thoroughly implement the said declarations, it is necessary, first of all, to foil the moves of the separatist forces at home and abroad and firmly preserve them.

The Koreans are called upon to dynamically wage a nationwide struggle to check and frustrate such criminal acts of the Lee Myung Bak group as negating the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and pursuing confrontation and war.

In order to thoroughly implement the said declarations, it is also necessary to achieve the unity of all the pro-reunification and patriotic forces at home and abroad true to the idea of "By our nation itself."

Unity guarantees the victory of the movement for national reunification.

The cause of independent reunification is sure to be accomplished thanks to the outstanding Songun politics of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the strength of the nation united close under the banner of the country's reunification and the great reunification programme common to the nation.

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