Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.

The independent national reunification would be unthinkable apart from the struggle against flunkeyism and the moves of depending upon foreign forces, the article notes, and goes on:

The present conservative ruling forces in south Korea are blatantly challenging the trend of the June 15 era of reunification and running amuck with the moves to provoke a war against the north in collusion with foreign forces by adopting the anti-reunification confrontational ideas the keynote of which is watchwords "no nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars" as their policy while trampling upon the idea of "By our nation itself" clarified in the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration. This is an expression of flunkeyism and dependence upon foreign forces.

The reality urgently requires to resolutely struggle against flunkeyism and dependence upon foreign forces and aggression and intervention by them in order to defend the sovereignty and the dignity of the nation and realize the national reunification according to the will and the interests of the nation.

As a man is more dead than alive if he has no independence, a nation can not struggle against flunkeyism and the moves of depending upon foreign forces which do harm to the nation if it fails to hold fast to independence. Such a nation will, in the end, fall short of getting rid of domination, subjugation and oppression by foreign forces and traitors.

Genuine patriotism lies in the struggle to defend the independence of the country and the nation and achieve the national reunification.

The group of Lee Myung Bak in south Korea is an intermediary of flunkeyism and the idea of dependence upon foreign forces and a group of die-hard stooges serving foreign forces. If the group of traitors is allowed to encroach upon the interests of the nation in collusion with the imperialists with their backs turned on the country and the nation, it would be impossible to check aggression and intervention by foreign forces and achieve the national reunification.

When all the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas resolutely reject flunkeyism and the idea of depending upon foreign forces and have firm stand of national independence and patriotism can they frustrate the moves of foreign forces and the sycophantic traitors against the nation and reunification and bring about an epoch-making phase in the nation-wide struggle to achieve the national reunification.