Nobody Can Check Trend of June 15 Era toward Reunification--Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's major newspaper Rodong Sinmun Wednesday carried a commentator's article.
The inter-Korean summit and the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration in June 2000 were a great event that turned the history of division and confrontation lasting for more than half a century into the history of reconciliation, unity and reunification, the article says, adding:
Furthermore, 2007 saw another north-south summit and the adoption of the October 4 declaration.
If this trend of the June 15 era had continued to go without obstruction of the separatists, the north and the south would have made bigger strides in their relationship, further consolidating the foundation for peace in the Korean Peninsula and moving up the day of national reunification.
But the results of the June 15 event were ruthlessly spoiled and the north-south relations have been driven to the furthest extreme of confrontation and rupture.
The day of national reunification the Korean expected to see soon was far delayed, and the crisis of nuclear war is coming nearer.
Why did the north-south relations go back to the past of confrontation to be driven into collapse?
This is entirely because the south Korean conservative regime has totally denied the historic June 15 joint declaration and resorted to moves to escalate the confrontation and ignite a war.
All the fellow countrymen are now stunned by the fact that all the shining achievements made by all Koreans in the efforts for independence, democracy and reunification through a protracted bloody struggle were brought to naught by the group of traitors in a matter of little more than three years.
The significance and influence of the historic June 15 joint declaration, which is deeply enshrined in the minds of all the Korean people and whose truth, viability, validity and vitality have been fully confirmed, do not get weakened due to any obstruction on the part of the group of traitors.