Rodong Sinmun today stresses this in a by-lined article.

The only way for promoting the national reconciliation and unity and reunifying the country is to fully support and thoroughly implement the north-south joint declarations, which manifest the national independence, the principle for reunification of the country, and clarify the practical ways for solving the reunification problem independently by the concerted efforts of the Koreans and by the might of great national unity, the article says, and goes on:

The Lee Myung Bak group is now getting evermore pronounced in its moves to obstruct the implementation of the above-said declarations while denying them.

Denial of the north-south declarations is just denial of the reunification and the development of the north-south relations and to hinder their implementation is just a revelation of the design to block the national independent reunification and realize the criminal ambition for "unification by absorption" at any cost in cahoots with foreign forces.

Any deviation from the historic inter-Korean declarations should never be tolerated.

All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should hold higher the banner of "By our nation itself" to adhere to and implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration to the letter and turn out in the nationwide struggle to crush the treacherous and anti-reunification moves of the U.S. and the Lee Myung Bak group.

The movement for national reunification will victoriously advance thanks to General Secretary
Kim Jong Il, who brightly shows the road ahead of all Koreans struggling for the national reunification with his great Songun idea and leadership, and the united efforts of the nation that is making headway under the uplifted banner of the above declarations, great programmes for the independent reunification common to the nation.