Koreans in North Vow to Make Every Possible Effort for National Reunification

Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The North Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration met here on Tuesday, adopting an appeal to all the Koreans at home and abroad.

KCNA had an interview with officials of the committee who participated in the meeting.

Question: I think the appeal reflects the invariable desire of all the Koreans to achieve the reunification of Korea in an independent and peaceful way and in the principle of great national unity.

Yun Tok Su: That's right. Korea was divided into two parts by foreign forces and the Koreans have suffered from more than five decades of the division.

The truth the Koreans acquired in the history of the struggle for national reunification is that national independence is vital to defending the fellow countrymen and making Korea prosperous.

Firm is the will of the Koreans to solve the issue of the country's reunification independently by themselves.

Pak Song Il: What the Koreans are ardently longing for is national reunification. But the bellicose forces at home and abroad are driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war in disregard of the desire of the Koreans to live harmoniously in a peaceful reunified country.

The present situation clearly shows who the main obstacle to ensuring peace on the peninsula is.

All the Koreans in the north, the south and abroad will invigorate the nationwide struggle to drive the U.S. imperialist forces out of south Korea and resolutely punish the present south Korean puppet regime, antagonistic to the nation and reunification, so as to realize their desire for the reunification.

Pak Yong Hui: The appeal calls for putting the interests common to the nation above anything else.

The Korean nation that has lived in the same territory with the same language and same blood is inseparable from each other.

How can the difference in ideology, ideal, political views and religious belief be put above patriotism in the effort for the reunification?

The people in the north, together with fellow countrymen in the south and abroad, will make every possible effort to achieve great unity and independent reunification of the nation.

The interviewers expressed full support to a proposal made by the north side committee to hold this year grand pro-reunification events involving Koreans in the north, the south and abroad and pro-reunification meetings of people of different social strata and organizations in the north and the south to mark the 12th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration and the 5th anniversary of the October 4 declaration. -0-

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[ndog37]

Also all economic situations do not apply to a reunited Korea. As you all know south Korea has had the fastest economic regeneration in the history of the world. Simply.put it less than 60years south Korea went from one of the poorest nations on earth to one of the richest. They know how to work hard.

[ndog37]

Get the American policemen of the world out of south Korea for starters. Next get the two countries leaders to talk to each other. Make a treaty which calls for both countries leaders to step down after 10 years. Make a new constitution and law of the land. The alternative is a war.

[jxhensley]

@yorubablk3 Communist unification could not have ruined Vietnam, if only because the US military machine already did the job.

[AleksandrsLV]

@yorubablk3 I'd like to point out, I'm not against the reunification. In fact I welcome it, if it was well planned and thought out.

I've looked into it enough to know that it's not something that can happen easily. North Koreans say they want it, purely as in.. lets turn South Korea into a communist state and go to war with America. South Korea want in just so they aren't at war anymore and can expand business and land. America isn't going to budge, so the DPRK needs to rethink what it wants.

[AleksandrsLV]

@yorubablk3 I'm not going to turn this into a pro or anti communist debate, but lets be honest all the current communist run countries aren't exactly nice places to live. The quality of life is lower there and surely everyone can see that, even in Vietnam. This mentality does not work in the modern era.

South Korea is a very up and coming nation. That will all fly straight out of the window if they were to reunify. I'm telling you South Korea won't buy into it.

[yorubablk3]

@AleksandrsLV Communist party unification in Vietnam has not led to a 'ruined' country.Quite the contrary.Communist party led unification is the answer for the Koreas and China/Taiwan.The US style of unsustainable capitalist ownership of the socialist generated wealth of the peoples & territories it occupies and controls by psychological & military force is coming to an end.

[truthslap]

@AleksandrsLV why would South Korea's economy have to "stretch" to the North? take the reunification of Germany as an example, both territories negotiated under terms of equal power, natural transition with no timeline, and equal military reduction to consolidate troops allowing the rest to become workers. all the factories in east germany didn't just disappear, they got back to work. when the people demand reunification, it usually happens.

[AleksandrsLV]

It's not going to work.

South Korea and America won't allow for a communist focused reunification. North Korea only want what they want, they don't understand compromise.

They want reunification because their country is fucked. If they reunified the entire peninsula will turn to ruins. South Korea's economy can not stretch through to the North! If North Korea want reunification, they need to build a stable economy, pronto!

[kimilsungfan]

Koreans of both countries unite under the red banner of freedom and socialism !!!

[darkpepijn]

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