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North Korea has called for unification with the South

Kim Jong-un (AP)
Kim Jong-un (AP)

North Korea has issued an appeal through its state media for ‘all Koreans at home and abroad’ to support continued cooperation between North and South Korea.

The KCNA news agency claimed that Pyongyang would ‘smash’ all the barriers that stand in the way of the reunification of the Korean peninsula.

The statement also claimed that military tension on the Korean peninsula was acting as a ‘fundamental obstacle’ between a potential improvement in relations between the two countries.

‘Let us turn out as one in the nationwide drive to improve the north-south relations and make a breakthrough for independent reunification, true to the noble patriotic intention of the peerlessly great man!’, the statement reads.

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‘It is the steadfast will of all Koreans who have turned out for implementing the noble intention of the peerlessly great man to bring great changes to the north-south relations as early as possible and make a new history of independent reunification.

North Korea has called for reunification (Reuters)
North Korea has called for reunification (Reuters)

‘Let us rapidly improve the north-south relations and pave a wide avenue to rosy future of the nation which will be reunified, strong and prosperous!’

The show of unity comes after it was confirmed that the North and South will form Korea’s first-ever unified team at next month’s Winter Olympics.

The team will march under the Unification Flag, which features the entire Korean peninsula, and was last used at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

But tensions are still high between North Korea and the United States, after North Korea described Donald Trump’s Twitter use as the ‘spasm of a lunatic’.