Inter-Korean relations can be improved only through joint declaration.

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PYONGYANG, June 29 (Itar-Tass) - Only implementation of provisions of
the joint declaration of June 15, 2000 "will help to pull inter-Korean
relations out of the present disastrous state".
This conclusion was drawn by the newspaper Rodong Sinmun, commenting
on Tuesday on a recent statement by North Korean political parties and
non-government organisations in support of this document that "has become
a symbol of reconciliation and cooperation between the North and the
South".
The leading North Korean newspaper claims that this historic
declaration, "apart from opening the way for independent unification of
the two parts of the Korean Peninsula, meets fully requirements of all
inter-Korean agreements, concluded in the past".
Inter-Korean relations which were successfully developing after the
signing of the joint declaration, "registered a regress after the advent
to power in Seoul of the pro-American team of traitors, led by President
Lee Myung-bak" in February 2008. The KCNA news agency points, in turn, to
this circumstance.
The news agency notes that relations between the two parts of the
Korean Peninsula "again entered the stage of vitriolic confrontation"
through the fault of this team that decided to spurn down the declaration.
The Seoul administration launched a propaganda campaign against North
Korea, demanding that Pyongyang "should curb its nuclear programme,
display openness and start implementing reforms". KCNA states that all
this provoked a sharp aggravation of relations between the North and the
South.
However, the agency stresses, the declaration of June 15, 2009
"remains a great document, mapping out the way for the Fatherland's
unification".
The joint declaration was signed during the Pyongyang visit by Kim
Dae-jung who was South Korea president at that time, and he met North
Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
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