Joint Appeal of All-Korean Committee for June 15 Joint Declaration

Pyongyang, September 27 (KCNA) -- The North Side, South Side and Overseas Side Committees for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration issued the following joint appeal Wednesday: It is 10 years since the October 4 declaration was published to display the blueprint for the improvement of inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity. Had the October 4 declaration been properly carried out, the achievements of the national unity which the fellow countrymen made through exchange of visits would have helped to open up wide the future of peace and prosperity and the Korean nation would have already entered the gateway to the country's reunification. Although it is the 10th anniversary of the historic October 4 declaration, the north-south ties remain cut off and the military tension on the Korean peninsula has now reached the extremes. The North Side, South Side and Overseas Side Committees for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration appeal as follows to prevent the growing danger of nuclear war and open up a fresh prospect for the improvement of the north-south relations and peace and prosperity: The old policy dating back to the confrontation era has to be eliminated in order to recover the relations of mutual respect and trust between the north and the south. There can not be the recovery of dialogue, cooperation and trust while chiming in the sanctions policy of antagonizing the fellow countrymen. The nation's issue has to be settled in the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and all legal and institutional barriers inciting division have to be brought down. The recent act of U.S. chief executive Trump who openly called for "totally destroying" the north and the use of military force is a serious insult and defamation against the dignity and future of the Korean nation. It is the most important task facing the nation to remove the war system which inflicted pains on the fellow countrymen while being in force for decades, and to build lasting peace mechanism. All the members of the nation have to turn out in a nationwide drive for defending the nation's wellbeing and the country's peace with sense of mission that they are masters of their own destiny and are responsible for sovereignty and peace. -0-