North Korea’s ruling party has accused South Korea of responsibility for the impossibility of forging a consensus during yesterday’s fourth round of inter-Korean working-level talks, citing Seoul’s “unreasonable insistences and insincere attitude.”
The publication of the Chosun Workers’ Party, Rodong Sinmun stated today, “The talks ended without result, because of the unreasonable assertions and insincere attitude of the South side, despite the North side’s sincere efforts.” It went on, “…the South side took such a dishonest and insincere attitude as creating artificial hurdles in settling the issues, insisting only on the blame for the crisis in the zone and unilateral assurances against reoccurrence.”
The article concluded, therefore, “The South side claimed it has the stand of normalizing the operation in the zone but came to the talks without any draft agreement, the basis of any negotiations. It only pretended to have the talks and keep them going on, thus making them fruitless.”
