North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF) announced on Friday, “We do declare that all the understandings for solving inter-Korean political and military confrontation are invalidated.”
The CPRF noted in its statement, “The agreed on items between North and South Korea were cruelly destroyed,” by President Lee Myung Bak’s “unification under a free democratic system” remarks, human rights statements or the sending of leaflets into North Korea, and preparations for a sudden change or a preemptive attack.
This statement from the CPRF, which acts as a spokesman for the Workers’ Party, especially North Korean policy on South Korea, has the same origin as that of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army. Their purpose is to shift the blame for frozen inter-Korean relations onto South Korea, to raise tension on the Korean Peninsula and to ultimately change South Korea’s policy on North Korea.
The CPRF pointed out that, “The items that were adopted by both authorities in the past (during the last South Korean administrations) consist of issues of mutual deference of each other’s ideology and system, the cessation of defamation of the other side, and heading off political and military confrontation. The current situation shows us that none of those agreed on items is being observed properly.”
The Committee claims, therefore, that such items have been invalidated because all understandings related to the solution of inter-Korea confrontation are useless under the current conditions.
While quoting the contents of the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement and other attached agreements vis a vis the Northern Limit Line (NLL), it emphasized, “In the situation where items related to the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on the West Sea are being thrown away as trash, we announce publicly our complete and ultimate abrogation of these items.”
Regarding the notion of Hyun In Taek, a proposer of the Lee administration policy on North Korea, as the next Minister of Unification, it issued a stinging criticism; “It is on par with an announcement to world society that South Korea will cross us to the world’s end.”
It concluded the statement by saying that, “Now, there is no resolution to overcome and no hope in the relations between North and South. The political and military confrontation has reached an extreme, facing a war in which fire turns into fire and iron strikes against iron.”
