Rodong Sinmun Wednesday stresses this in a signed article.

Noting that the reunification of Korea is for the Korean nation from A to Z and the Korean nation itself is responsible for the reunification, the article says:

Flunkeyism and dependence on foreign forces lead to national destruction and division, and national independence only is the key to achieving reunification. This is the lesson taught by the long history of national division.

The major forces obstructing the reunification of Korea are the U.S. and Japanese aggression forces and the sycophantic traitors of south Korea following them.

The United States has been hell-bent on carrying out the policy of military occupation of south Korea and the hostile policy toward the DPRK, out of its invariable design to dominate Asia and the rest of the world with south Korea as a springboard. The Japanese reactionaries have persistently hindered the reunification of Korea while zealously following the U.S hostile policy toward the DPRK in a bid to turn Japan into the leader of Asia and realize its old dream of "Greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere" with the help of the U.S. imperialists.

The Lee Myung Bak group of south Korea is getting frantic in the sycophantic and treacherous deeds and anti-DPRK war moves to realize its wild design for "unification through invasion of the north" in league with its U.S. and Japanese masters.

The reality urgently calls upon all the Koreans to decisively frustrate the moves of the separatist forces at home and abroad through their nationwide struggle and open up the road for the national independent reunification.

The Korean nation's struggle for reunification of the country is, in essence, the acute confrontation between the forces for national independence and the foreign forces for aggression and between the patriotic forces for reunification and the traitorous forces against reunification.

Reunification represents patriotism and division means treachery, and the independent reunification is the only way out for the Korean nation.

All Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should continue the powerful grand march for independent reunification, holding high the banner of national independence under the leadership of Kim Jong Il until the day when their long cherished desire for national reunification is realized, the article concludes.