calendar>>February 8. 2009 Juche 98
Struggle for Peace and Global Independence Urged
Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The progressive people of the world should properly understand the danger of aggression and war moves of the imperialists and get unity to thoroughly check and foil them, thus accelerating the building of a peaceful new world where all countries and peoples live and develop independently and equally, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.

It goes on:

It is the common aspiration and desire of humankind to live and develop in an independent way.

Any country deprived of its sovereignty can never shape the independent policy nor realize the aspiration and desire of its nation. That is why peoples have struggled against any practices intended to violate the sovereignty.

There were turns and twists in the course of advance of history, but the peoples' struggle for independence have emerged victorious and the popular masses have vigorously advanced holding the helm of the era as the driving forces of the development of history.

Without struggle against aggression and war, domination and plunder by the imperialists, it is impossible for the peoples to defend the sovereignty of their countries and, furthermore, realize global independence.

It is possible to prevent a war and ensure global peace only when the progressive peoples of the world aspiring after independence and peace turn out in the anti-imperialist and anti-war struggle under the uplifted banner of preserving peace.

As history advances by peoples' struggle, global independence is to be realized successfully by the united struggle of the popular masses.

The Korean people will preserve peace on the Korean Peninsula and accelerate the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the banner of the anti-imperialist and anti-war struggle, thus greatly contributing to the realization of global independence.

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