What is essential for wiping out misunderstanding and distrust between the north and the south, respecting each other, deepening mutual trust and achieving unity is to have the true consciousness of being members of the Korean nation, the article notes, and goes on:

The said consciousness is a source of patriotic thoughts and feelings to settle all problems through the concerted efforts of the fellow countrymen in line with the national interests, regarding them more important than foreign forces.

To be hostile to fellow countrymen, siding with foreign forces, obsessed by narrow-minded concept of confrontation, in disregard of homogeneity and advantageous and intrinsic character of the Korean nation, which were formed and have developed through a long history, is nothing but treachery bereft of even an iota of consciousness of being members of the nation.

The consciousness of being members of the Korean nation serves as ideological and moral strength which helps struggle for the interests of the Koreans who attach importance to their fellow countrymen, not to foreign forces, and desire unity and reunification, not meeting the interests of anti-reunification foreign forces.

The above-mentioned consciousness serves as an engine which helps wipe out distrust and concept of confrontation between the north and the south and achieve national reconciliation and unity.

It encourages all the members of the nation to give priority to the love for the nation though they have differing ideas and isms, overcome all differences in views with such love and devote their all to the cause of national reunification with ardent patriotism.

The historic June 15 joint declaration which instills the genuine view on compatriots and the true consciousness of being members of the Korean nation ushered in a new era of national reconciliation and unity in which the Koreans are dynamically advancing in the idea of "By our nation itself" and proves that only when all Koreans give full play to the above-said consciousness, is it possible to give strong spurs to the development of the inter-Korean relations and national reunification.

All Koreans in the north and the south and abroad should advance the inter-Korean relations with the true consciousness of being members of the Korean nation and turn out as one in the patriotic cause to bring earlier the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.