calendar>>October 17. 2008 Juche 97
Lee Myung Bak Group's Racket of Confrontation with DPRK Slammed
Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will neither remain a passive onlooker to the anti-DPRK racket of the Lee Myung Bak group nor pardon those who dare hurt the inviolable system in the DPRK, the dignity and life and soul of its people, but mete out a decisive and merciless punishment to them, warns a commentator of Rodong Sinmun today in his article.

The Lee group is becoming more frantic in its racket of confrontation with the DPRK in league with outside forces, instead of dropping its anti-reunification "policy towards the north," thus blatantly challenging the desire of the times and the nation, the article says, and goes on:

All the dialogues between the authorities of the north and the south were stopped and the inter-Korean relations have been driven to a touch-and-go situation, going beyond the phase of freeze and deterioration, due to the reckless anti-DPRK confrontational moves of the Lee group.

The history of the south Korean puppet regimes knows no other than the Lee group of traitors who have been so hell-bent on sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation with fellow countrymen.

The real aim sought by the Lee group in escalating such moves for confrontation with the DPRK is to divert elsewhere the public criticism of it touched off by its sycophantic and treacherous policy and unpopular misrule and get rid of its crisis, first of all.

The unprecedented anti-DPRK confrontational moves of the Lee group are the revelation of their sinister intention to tide over the crisis in which they are forsaken by everybody for pursuing confrontation with the DPRK and, furthermore, realize their daydream, pursuant to the U.S. policy to stifle it.

Another aim sought by the group of traitors is to stem the trend of the times towards independent reunification and bring back the inter-Korean relations to those in the era of the Cold War.

In fact, the negation of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration means denying the ideology and system in the DPRK and seeking confrontation between the north and the south.

Now it has become clearer that the south Korean conservative regime has nothing but the idea of standing in confrontation with the DPRK.

It is quite ridiculous for the Lee group to dare stand in confrontation with the DPRK.

It is a blatant challenge to the system in the DPRK and an open declaration of a war for the group to dare hurt its supreme dignity.

The DPRK sets store by the north-south relations, but it will decisively counter confrontation with confrontation and a war with a war if someone provokes it.

If such confrontation and war break out, the DPRK will achieve reunification and have nothing to lose except the Military Demarcation Line.

The moves for an anti-north war stepped up by the south Korean puppets in league with the U.S. to cope with "contingency" would not only bring a nuclear disaster to the Korean nation but create such a dangerous situation as causing serious calamities to the surrounding areas.

Lee Myung Bak had better come to his senses and bear in mind that he will have no option but to follow in the deplorable footsteps of the preceding dictators who met disgraceful ends if he goes reckless as a puppet of the U.S. and ultra-right conservatives as now.

If the group of traitors keeps to the road of reckless confrontation with the DPRK, defaming its dignity despite its repeated warnings, this will compel it to make a crucial decision including the total freeze of the north-south relations.

The DPRK will settle accounts to the last with those keen to realize their daydream.

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