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Open a broad avenue to By Our Nation Itself

Date: 17/08/2018 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

The south Korean authorities are now in a flurry of diplomatic activities with the US aimed at removing obstacles standing in the way of implementing the Panmunjom declaration caused by the latter’s anti-DPRK sanctions and pressure racket.

The foreign minister, director of the national intelligence service and national security adviser visited the US one after another to beg for limited lifting of anti-DPRK sanctions, while other authorities are very busy trying to gain support for the peaceful settlement of the Korean peninsula issue through diversified contact with the US congress, local self-governing bodies and related personnel in the US embassy in Seoul.

These cannot be construed other than a narrow-minded behaviour still stuck in the old way of thinking which measures everything in the context of south Korea-US alliance.

In fact, the US hardline conservatives have radically ratcheted up the anti-DPRK sanctions and pressure racket contrary to the spirit of the historic DPRK-US summit and joint statement, creating an unfavourable environment for easing tension in the Korean peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations.

But it is an objective situation, and it can never be the major factor in implementing the declaration.

Those who are responsible for implementing the Panmunjom declaration are, as dictated in the declaration, the north and south Korean authorities and the Korean nation.

The Panmunjom declaration is a historical document of the Korean nation which deals with issues of  the life and death of the nation, the issue of peace, prosperity and reunification of the Korean peninsula, the unanimous aspiration and desire of the nation. Therefore, in the declaration the north and the south clearly affirmed the principle of national independence that the destiny of the Korean nation will be decided by themselves.

But they, fully obsessed with the obstacles caused by foreign forces, are busy with foreign tours to beg others without doing what they have to do. It is a foolish act of giving up their own rights as masters and causing complexity in the settlement of issues.

There is no need for the north and the south to study others’ faces in implementing the Panmunjom declaration which calls for relinking the severed blood vessel and working together with their own things, not those of outside forces.

The key to any success is to face and overcome all challenges and difficulties with firm courage, bold decision and resolute power of execution.

It is the truth shown by the present inter-Korean relationship which has taken a U-turn from confrontation and war crisis to reconciliation and cooperation, peace and prosperity.

No one had ever imagined that such a detente and atmosphere of inter-Korean fence-mending as it is now would be created in the Korean peninsula which was teetering on the brink of war till late last year.

But as the DPRK proactively put forward the policy for switchover for improved relations and took a series of bold decisions and courageous measures brimming with compatriotic feelings, the spring thaw of peace began in the Korean peninsula, the 23rd Winter Olympics were held with splendour as an auspicious joint national event and other eye-opening results were produced in north-south cooperation. In particular, two rounds of historic inter-Korean summits took place and the Panmunjom declaration for peace, prosperity and reunification of the Korean peninsula was adopted at Panmunjom, once a symbol of division and confrontation.

The present times, when the implementation of the Panmunjom declaration has become a trend, urgently demand that the south Korean authorities bid farewell to the old tendency towards cooperation with outside forces and take an attitude of national independence, nation-first principle and national cooperation.

Today the south Korean public supports inter-Korean fence-mending.

It is the duty of the south Korean authorities to implement the Panmunjom declaration which is required by the times and supported by the public.

The only way to successfully fulfil the duty is to open the broad avenue of By Our Nation itself, not the alley of dependence on foreign forces.
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