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S. Koreans Called on to Deal Sledge Blows at Lee Myung Bak
Pyongyang, June 1 (KCNA) -- The National Reconciliation Council in an appeal to the fellow brothers and sisters in south Korea issued Tuesday expressed belief that they would deal sledgehammer blows at the Lee Myung Bak pro-U.S. conservative group through the "elections to the local self-governing bodies" with the same spirit and stamina as displayed in the April 19 and May 18 uprisings and thus creditably perform their honorable missions and responsibilities.

The appeal cites facts to prove that the puppet group is making every desperate effort to use the case of its warship sinking for achieving the "election" purpose.

The "elections" are an intermediary judgment to be meted out to the

group, the appeal notes, and goes on:

The past two years and several months of the Lee group's office

were days of disgrace, tribulation, pain and catastrophe. It is self-evident that nothing can be expected from this group.

We are stern towards the puppet group of traitors but will always join hands with fellow brothers and sisters in the south desirous of justice, democracy and peace and reunification.

There is nothing impossible if all compatriots in the north and the south pool their strength and they can surely drive the foes of reunification out of this land and steadfastly carry forward the June 15 era of reunification.

All fellow countrymen in the south, rise up in an all-people sacred struggle for judging the Lee group of traitors, the root cause of misfortune and disasters.

You people of all strata in south Korea, vote against the Lee Myung Bak group, representing your mounting grudge and resentment.

The workers, peasants and youth and students, fully play your roles as standard-bearers in the struggle for making a clean sweep of the puppet conservative group just as you acted pioneers and vanguard in the resistance of the south Korean people.

People from various walks of life including intellectuals, media persons, religionists, businessmen and persons of culture, don’t allow yourself to be suppressed by the group of traitors but offer strong resistance to it through confrontation in the elections.

All the democratic and progressive forces in south Korea, achieve solidarity and alliance irrespective of grouping, affiliation and ism to turn the "elections" into platforms for bitterly condemning the group and meting out a final judgment to it.

The smear campaign of the pro-U.S. puppet group to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK is bound to go totally bankrupt in face of the dynamic advance of all the fellow countrymen united under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.

The sacred cause of the south Korean people for independence, democracy, peace and reunification is sure to triumph.

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