The trend of the situation last year proved once again the truth of history that with nothing can the anti-reunification forces break the Korean nation's will for independent reunification and peace and prosperity and they are bound to face a defeat, the article notes, and goes on:

The joint New Year editorial for this year put up the slogan "Let all the compatriots open the gates of national reunification full of fresh confidence!"

The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration are the banners to be held high in the struggle for the independent reunification. Whoever wants the peace and reunification of the country should turn out as one in the nationwide drive to support, defend and implement the north-south declarations.

It is necessary to place the interests common to the nation above anything else and subordinate everything to meeting them.

The DPRK remains unchanged in its principled stand to achieve national reconciliation and unity on the basis of the above-said interests.

All the Koreans should frustrate every reckless military provocation, arms buildup and war exercise of the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers against the DPRK, holding high the slogan of peace against war. It is necessary to heighten the vigilance against the military nexus of the U.S., Japan and south Korea and drive the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, a main obstacle in ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula, out of south Korea as soon as possible.