calendar>>January 31. 2009 Juche 98
Lee Myung Bak Group Denounced for Bedeviling Inter-Korean Relations
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued a statement as regards the uncontrollable grave situation in which the inter-Korean relations have been put to the extremes of confrontation in political and military fields. This is a very just step to check the reckless moves of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors running headlong towards the confrontation with fellow countrymen and provocation of a war of aggression against the DPRK and defend the common interests of the nation.

Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

The south Korean authorities totally denied and nullified the historic inter-Korean declarations, thus pushing the north-south relations into a quagmire in gross violation of the agreements common to the nation. This is a blatant challenge to the nation's will for reunification.

The DPRK, proceeding from its important mission for the country and the nation, put forward a lot of reasonable ways and proposals to create favorable circumstance for national reconciliation and unity and reunification of the country by defusing the political and military confrontation between the north and the south and rooting out the source of war and has made every possible effort for their materialization.

However, all the agreements between the north and the south have been reduced to dead documents due to the Lee Myung Bak group's moves for confrontation and war which went beyond the limit. The group is challenging the DPRK by force of arms, even claiming that they would not rule out mounting a preemptive attack on it. Under this situation, there is no need for the DPRK to remain bound to the past inter-Korean agreements.

The Lee group will never evade its responsibility for having driven the north-south confrontation into an extremity but should pay dearly for it.

There is no future for those mad in confrontation, and they are to be cursed for all ages. This truth will surely be proven by history.

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