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The north-south joint declaration has fully demonstrated its vitality for its truth and validity.

The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration are the declarations based on the spirit of "By our nation itself" reflecting the desire of the fellow countrymen and the need of the times. For this reason, as soon as the June 15 joint declaration was published with the idea of "By our nation itself" as its core, it was unequivocally supported and hailed by all the compatriots in the north and the south and overseas.

Astonishing successes hardly imaginable in the past were achieved in the development of the relations between the north and the south and in the national reunification movement.

But the appearance of the Lee Myung Bak regime pursuing the confrontation between the north and the south in south Korea threw a stumbling block in the way of implementing the two declarations.

The conservative group groundlessly defiled the said declarations, which the north and the south had agreed upon and commanded the unanimous support and welcome of all Koreans and the whole world, and slandered the spirit of "By our nation itself", the idea common to the nation as "chauvinistic nationalism".

The inter-Korean relations have reached such worst phase that they can no longer be repaired and the constant danger of a nuclear war is hanging over the Korean Peninsula.

The reality underscores the need for all the fellow countrymen at home and abroad to make a clean sweep of the Lee Myung Bak group, a gang of anti-reunification traitors, to achieve independent reunification and peace and prosperity.