Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes this in a signed article.

The peoples can never protect the sovereignty of their countries, much less achieving prosperity and development in the new century, as long as the imperialists are allowed to persist in military intervention and aggression. This is the lesson drawn from the present complicated international situation, the article notes, and goes on:

The imperialists are ferocious and cruel and there is no limit to their avarices. They never make a present of peace to the people. They get fiercer and more desperate as they find in a more unfavorable situation.

They opt for alliance in pursuit of their aggressive purposes. This situation compels the people to counter the imperialists' moves for military intervention and aggression with the strategy of unity.

The countries advocating independence and peace should not be taken in by the imperialists' moves for split and alienation but settle the differences among them through dialogues and negotiations on the principle of respect for their sovereignty.

The Korean people will frustrate the moves of the imperialists for aggression and wage a dynamic struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country and preserve peace on the Korean Peninsula and thus make a positive contribution to building a new peaceful world free from aggression and war.

The imperialists' moves for aggression and war are bound to go bust if the world progressives put up a dynamic struggle, united close under the banner of peace against war, concludes the article.