Rodong Sinmun says the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration and great successes made in the subsequent period are the precious fruition of leader Kim Jong Il's idea and line for independent reunification and energetic leadership.

Noting that 16 years since the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration proved that improved north-south relations, peace of the country and co-prosperity of the nation would be unthinkable without respecting and implementing the joint declaration, the daily goes on:

All Koreans are now faced with the important task for giving momentum to the strong trend of June 15 once again true to the three charters for national reunification and thus achieve independent reunification of the country.

It is important to hold aloft the banner of national independence and great national unity.

All Koreans should dynamically wage the struggle for peace against war in order to stop the warmongers at home and abroad from unhesitatingly bringing disaster of a nuclear war to this land.

They should decisively meet the challenges of the anti-reunification forces blocking the improvement of the inter-Korean relations.

It is the principled stand of the DPRK re-clarified at the joint conference of the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK to achieve independent reunification of the country by the peaceful means and federal formula under the unfurled banner of national independence and great national unity.

Minju Joson calls upon all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to turn out as one in the drive for carrying out the new line and policies for national reunification clarified by supreme leader Kim Jong Un and pave a broad avenue to national reunification by the concerted efforts of the Koreans.