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Ten Major Crimes of Lee Myung Bak Group Disclosed
Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- The National Reunification Institute in an indictment issued on Feb. 25 disclosed ten major crimes committed by the Lee Myung Bak group in the first year of its office.

It singled out as ten major crimes the group of traitors' call for giving priority to foreign forces, revival of the fascist dictatorial system, opening of the south Korean market to the American beef fraught with the danger of mad cow disease, act of rendering economy bankrupt and deterioration of people's livelihood, a "coup staged" by it against "history," declaration of its policy for confrontation with fellow countrymen, total negation of the north-south declarations, nullification of the inter-Korean agreements, suspension of undertakings for inter-Korean cooperation and trumpeting about "contingency" and call for "a preemptive attack."

According to the indictment, the Lee group made south Korea totally dependent upon the U.S. in all fields including politics, economy, military affairs, advocating the "theory of giving priority to the south Korea-U.S. alliance."

Traitor Lee not only worked hard to cover up the crimes committed by Japan in the past but kowtowed to the Japanese king, talking about "future-oriented partnership" with it.

The group not only focused power on "Chongwadae" and increased its dictatorial function but indiscriminately arrested and detained members of the organizations for reunification and democracy and figures of conscience in south Korea after labeling them "pro-north leftist forces" by invoking the fascist "National Security Law." It enacted various kinds of new evil laws or retrogressively revised the existing ones in a more fascist manner.

Due to the group's opening of the south Korean market to the U.S. beef fraught with the danger of the mad cow disease more than 200,000 stockbreeders have been put on the verge of bankruptcy overnight and the people's health and lives are seriously threatened.

The traitor grabbed power under the mask of "president for economic recovery" but what he has done in the first year of his office is that he has driven the south Korean economy to a catastrophic crisis and thrown the people into destitution.

The group falsified the fact by claiming that the April 3 Popular Uprising on Jeju Island against the U.S. occupation of south Korea and its colonial rule over it was triggered off by the "agitation of the "leftist forces" and even described the April 19 Popular Uprising as a "demo" and kept mum about the June Popular Resistance and Kwangju Resistance.

It also whitewashed the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule over Korea as a rule to "enlighten and modernize" Korea and praised the U.S. imperialists' "military rule" over Korea right after the liberation as a policy for "defending liberal democracy" and "ensuring the democratic autonomy."

It is one more gross distortion of history that the puppet group deliberately spoke ill of the preceding regimes, talking about the "lost decade."

The Lee group has desperately pursued confrontation with fellow countrymen since it declared "no nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars," a theory of confrontation against reunification as its "policy towards the north."

It has refused to implement the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, totally negating them.

Due to the Lee group's moves, the inter-Korean agreements have been reduced to dead documents and scrapped and even the legal mechanism for preventing military conflicts has been completely destroyed.

Lee unilaterally suspended the tour of Mt. Kumgang which has been underway for the last decade, blustering that there would be no cooperation unless the north "dismantled" its nukes and "opened" it. He has deliberately rendered the situation tense, putting the overall non-governmental cooperation such as the operation in the Kaesong Industrial Zone and the tour of Kaesong in a crisis.

What is the most dangerous of the Lee group's crimes committed against reunification and the nation is that it is letting loose a whole string of outbursts about "contingency" and "preemptive attack," groundlessly defiling the dignified system in the DPRK.

All facts clearly prove that it is impossible to save the inter-Korean ties from collapse and the nation is fated to meet disasters as long as Lee and his group are allowed to stay in power, the indictment noted, declaring that the Lee group's acts of treachery are unpardonable and it is bound to meet a stern punishment of history and the nation.

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