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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Great National Unity
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday in an article stresses the need to achieve the great national unity in order to realize the cause of the country's reunification while smashing challenges of the separatist forces at home and abroad.

Only when the whole nation gets united under the banner of great unity to build the strong driving force of national reunification, is it possible to overcome any difficulty and hardship and realize the cause of Korea's reunification, the article says, adding:

However, the north-south relations are now in an extreme phase of confrontation, entirely due to the south Korean conservative group's anti-reunification deeds.

If they persist in confrontation in collusion with outside forces while going hostile to the compatriots in the north, the reconciliation and unity between the north and the south can never be achieved.

The south Korean authorities should liquidate the evil practices of confrontation and hostility and respect compatriots and make a decision to go as the partner of reunification.

A shortcut to the reunification lies in the great national unity.

Though the separatist forces at home and abroad are making desperate efforts, there will be no change in our faith and will to usher in a new era of independent reunification by the great national unity.

The south Korean authorities should squarely see the trend of the times and the aspiration of the fellow countrymen and take the right road for independent reunification by joining hands with compatriots, resolutely liquidating the evils of confrontation and hostility harmful to the great national unity and the improvement of the north-south relations.

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