The north-south summit took place in Pyongyang in October, Juche 96 (2007) and a declaration for the development of the north-south relations, peace and prosperity was adopted. Therefore, the Korean nation could usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity confidently with the programme for implementing the June 15 joint declaration.

The October 4 declaration correctly indicates the ways of definitely turning the north-south relations into the relations of mutual respect and trust, building durable peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula and developing the inter-Korean cooperation and exchange in an all-round way in the spirit of By Our Nation Itself.

The editorial calls upon all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to keep hold on the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration as the reunification programmes common to the nation, meet the challenges of anti-reunification forces at home and abroad and vigorously conduct the patriotic struggle for improving the inter-Korean relations and achieving the peace on the Korean Peninsula and national prosperity.

Invariable is the stand of the DPRK to improve the inter-Korean relations and open up a wide avenue to independent reunification, peace and prosperity by implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, the editorial concludes.