(North) Korean News: "Increased Driving Force for Korean Reunification Called for"

I think all this mind-deadening repetition means that Kim Jong Il would really like to be the dictator of North and South Korea.

Increasing the driving force for reunification is a sure guarantee for achieving Korea's reunification. Only when all Koreans unite close as one under the banner of great national unity, will they prove to be a mighty driving force for reunification and is it possible to shatter every move of the separatist forces at home and abroad against reunification and pave a wide avenue for accomplishing the cause of reunification as early as possible. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.

In order to increase the driving force for reunification all Koreans should come out as one in the movement for independent reunification under the banner of patriotism irrespective of ideology and social system, the article notes, and goes on: It is necessary to strengthen the driving force for reunification in every way through a practical struggle for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity.

All the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should keep pace with one another and take joint actions in the struggle for Korea's reunification in order to frustrate the evermore undisguised moves of the enemies against reunification. Compatriots from all walks of life should glorify the June 15 era of reunification through their many-sided contacts, wide-ranging discussion on the reunification issue and solidarity and alliance and bind the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad hand and foot.

Great national unity should be achieved in the idea of "By our nation itself" and under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.

All members of the nation should courageously join the ranks of forces standing for great national unity, bearing in mind that increasing the driving force for reunification under the banner of the declaration guarantees national reunification. Under no circumstances partisan, class and individual interests can be more important than the cause of great national unity and the cause of national reunification. Now that the separatist forces at home and abroad have gone to extremes in their moves, whoever is concerned about the destiny of the country and the nation and truly wishes national reunification should unite close in thinking and purpose in the idea of "By our nation itself" and under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and turn out in the movement for great national unity.

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