S. Korean Authorities Denounced for Abusing Olympic Idea for Their Sinister Political Purpose

 Pyongyang, August 30 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Olympic Committee Friday released a statement assailing the south Korean authorities for abusing sacred sports and cultural exchange for their sinister political purpose and confrontation with the fellow countrymen.
    As reported, the DPRK Olympic Committee re-clarified its decision not to send a cheerleading squad to the 17th Asian Games due to the south Korean authorities' wrong attitude.
    Much upset by strong public protest and denunciation at home and abroad, the south Korean puppet forces let a spokesman for the Ministry of Unification shamelessly express "regret", "twisted assertion" and the like, the statement said, and went on:
    The DPRK delegation had already notified formally those concerned of the Asian Games Organizing Committee and those concerned of the puppet authorities of this decision. However, they feigned ignorance of this and when the fact was brought to light, they are working hard to mislead public opinion by creating impression that the notice of the DPRK was an unofficial one, talking about "verbal mention."
    As already known, the DPRK formally announced its decision to send to the 17th Asian Games slated to take place in Inchon, south Korea the players group and a large cheerleading squad of 350 persons and stepped up the preparations for it.
    As soon as the DPRK made public its decision to send the cheerleading squad, the south Korean puppet authorities and conservative forces let loose such sheer sophism as "it is a group for political operation in the south", "it is a group for political propaganda from the Workers' Party of Korea" and "it will create discord in the south" and slandered it with such unspeakable vitriol as "double-dealing tactics of reconciliation and war" and "strategy of using beauties."
    Thrown into consternation by the great sensation created in south Korea by the news of the dispatch of the DPRK's cheerleading squad, the puppet forces let their paid trumpeters run the whole gamut of invectives that south Korean public attention would focus on the cheerleading squad and then it would be like putting the cart before the horse.
    The puppet authorities' wrong attitude towards the DPRK's decision to send the cheerleading squad found a clearer manifestation at the north-south working-level talks held on July 17 for its participation in the 17th Asian Games.
    The DPRK was compelled to give up the decision to send the cheerleading squad as they desperately decried its decision, far from rejoicing over and welcoming its sincerity.
    The above-said facts go to clearly prove that the south Korean puppet forces are abusing sacred sports and cultural exchange for their sinister political purpose and confrontation with the fellow countrymen and are chiefly to blame for blocking national reconciliation and unity and the process to improve the north-south relations.
    With no subterfuge can the puppet forces justify their action taken for barring the cheerleading squad of the DPRK from taking part in the Inchon Asian Games. -0-