Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- The inter-Korean relations still remain at the lowest ebb due to the south Korean authorities' policy for confrontation with fellow countrymen. It is necessary for all the Koreans to pick up the nationwide desire for reunification with the conviction of victory in the cause of national reunification with August 15 as a momentum.

Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a bylined article.

It goes on:

Whoever wants the country's reunification and the nation's prosperity should firmly defend the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and creditably discharge responsibility and duty as a member of the nation in the struggle for implementing them.

All the Koreans should closely unite under the banner of "By our nation itself" irrespective of ideology, system, political view and ism and reinforce the driving force for national reunification.

Political parties, organizations and compatriots from all walks of life at home and abroad should support and keep pace with each other for national reconciliation and cooperation and meet the interests common to the nation through solidarity and unity and joint actions.

All the Koreans should resolutely condemn and frustrate the reckless military provocations and north-targeted war exercises of the bellicose forces at home and abroad and their moves to beef up their armed forces as they are seriously threatening the nation's security and peace.

They should expose and denounce every move of the anti-reunification forces swimming against the trend of the times towards independent reunification, obsessed with the hostility towards fellow countrymen and escalate the struggle to foil them.

The progressive patriotic forces in south Korea should firmly unite as one in order to intensify the struggle to put an end to the treacherous moves of the conservative group to escalate the inter-Korean confrontation and pursue fascism.

The anti-reunification forces can never hold in check the Koreans' advance towards the independent reunification no matter how desperately they may work.