Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The movement of national reunification is, in essence, the course of the struggle between the pro-reunification patriotic forces and the separatist forces and this course represented the history during which the former overpowered the latter.

The Korean people should give a steady continuity to this admirable tradition.

The south Korean conservative ruling forces have persisted in the moves for confrontation while ceaselessly going against the trend of the June 15 era of reunification.

The broad patriotic forces of reunification in the north and the south and overseas should stir up the wave for independent reunification firmly united under the banner of national independence and patriotism and dynamically conduct the movement for national reunification and thus prevail over the separatist forces and frustrate their anti-reunification and confrontation moves.

A decisive factor for winning a victory in the struggle against the separatist forces is to fully apply the idea of "By our nation itself" in the movement for reunification.

Only when all the Korean nation firmly establish the independent stand in the movement for national reunification guided by the idea of "By our nation itself" and firmly unite under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration can they achieve independent reunification, peace and prosperity, their cherished desire.

The more desperate efforts the separatist forces make to stand in the way of the reunification movement the more decisive telling blows the patriotic force of reunification will deal to the traitors by dint of "By our nation itself" as they stand against the reunification while cooperating with foreign forces with their backs turned on the nation, the article concludes.