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National Reconciliation and Cooperation Called for
Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- National reconciliation and cooperation are prerequisites to national reunification and priority tasks, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article.

Any Korean who loves the country and the nation and desires reunification should put forward national reconciliation and cooperation as a common goal of struggle and orient and subordinate everything to attaining it, the article says, and goes on:

It is necessary to place the common interests of the nation above all other things and achieve reconciliation and unity on their basis.

Whoever truly wishes to see the inter-Korean relations improved should drop the narrow-minded concept of confrontation, get rid of the narrow framework of ism of individuals and partisan interests and strategy and prioritize and protect the interests of the nation.

In order to subordinate everything to the interests common to the nation it is essential to remain true to the idea of "By our nation itself."

All compatriots should support and encourage everything beneficial to reconciliation and cooperation through visits and contacts free from prejudice and pool will and efforts for achieving the common objective of the nation.

What is urgent for meeting common interests and prosperity of the nation through reconciliation and cooperation is to have all legal and institutional mechanisms obstructive to them dismantled.

All Koreans should put an end to all legal and institutional mechanisms doing harm to the development of the inter-Korean relations and reunification through firm solidarity and a dynamic struggle.

The movement for the country's reunification is a nationwide patriotic cause.

It is the unanimous desire and unwavering will of the members of the nation to achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity through national reconciliation and cooperation.

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