National independence, the lifeline of the national reunification movement

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, in his New Year Address for 2018, pointed out that to improve inter-Korean relations as soon as possible, the authorities of the north and the south should raise the banner of national independence higher than ever before, and fulfill their responsibility and role they have assumed for the times and the nation.

National independence is the basis for resolving the national issues and the lifeline of the national reunification movement. To adhere to the stand for national independence serves as an important way for settling the issue of the north-south ties.

Submission to and dependence on foreign forces are an ideological poison and way to national ruin that make a nation subservient to the strong and benumb.

If a nation does not believe in its strength and ability and takes to national nihilism, it is bound to follow flunkeyism and depend on foreign force.

Inter-Korean relations are, to all intents and purposes, an internal matter of our nation, which the north and the south should resolve on their own responsibility.

The foreign forces do not want the military tension of the Korean Peninsula to be defused and the emergence of a reunified power through improvement of the north-south relations.

Historically, the U.S. does not like the south Korean authorities' move to join hands with north Korea and has made vicious efforts to foment inter-Korean distrust and confrontation.

It is as plain as a pikestaff that touring foreign countries to solicit help on the issue of inter-Korean relations will gain nothing and that such behavior will give the outside forces, who pursue dishonest objectives, an excuse for their interference and complicate matters further.

The south Korean authorities should read the black-hearted mask of the U.S. to perpetuate the Korean nation forever and dominate the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding region.

To solve national issue with the same brethren is a way out drawn from the long-standing history of national division. The miserable end of Park Geun-hye shows that escalation of inter-Korean confrontation would jeopardize north-south ties, bring the danger of nuclear war and destroy destiny of herself.  

The north and the south should hold sincere discussion over inter-Korean relations to seek a way out for its settlement.