calendar>>October 16. 2009 Juche 98
Anniversary of Oct. Resistance in S. Korea Observed
Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The October resistance for democracy was just one to put an end to the dictatorial rule of foreign forces and their stooges and bring about independent and democratic new politics and life.

Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a signed article carried 30 years since youth and students and other people in south Korea rose in the above-said resistance.

It goes on:

The resistance proved the truth of history that nothing can hold in check the just struggle of the popular masses for new politics, system and life and the south Korean people can foil any oppressors' suppression and emerge victorious when they struggle united close under the banner of independence against the U.S. and democracy against dictatorship.

The independence and democratization of the society were what those who fell in the above-said resistance ardently called for and this still remains the unanimous desire of all the south Koreans.

The spirit of those who fell in the heroic resistance against the dictatorial forces forsaken by the people is still alive.

The broad civic and public organizations and people of all strata in south Korea resolutely reject and denounce the anti-reunification forces hamstringing the efforts to improve the inter-Korean relations in league with foreign forces swimming against the trend of the era for independent reunification. They have the will to achieve without fail the reunification through alliance with the north by adhering to and implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.

The banner to be held aloft by the Korean nation to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country is the above-said declarations. The independence, great unity and national reunification which all the Koreans desire are achievable only when the inter-Korean joint declarations are firmly preserved and sincerely implemented.

Whoever is truly concerned about the destiny of the nation and desirous of national reunification should courageously turn out in the patriotic struggle for supporting and implementing the inter-Korean declarations.

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