Pyongyang,
June 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful
Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued a statement Thursday as the talks
between the authorities of the north and the south proved abortive due
to the south Korean puppet authorities' arrogant obstructions and
deliberate disturbance even though they were scheduled to be held amid
expectation and concern of the public at home and abroad.
The delegation of the north side was about to leave Pyongyang when
it was informed by the south side that its vice-minister of Unification,
not the minister of Unification, would be the chief delegate of the
south side to the talks, the statement said, and went on:
The south side insisted on the ministerial-level talks from the
beginning and confirmed more than once its intention to send the
minister of Unification. But right before the start of the talks, it
downgraded the level of the chief delegate. This is the height of
discourtesy and disrespect unprecedented in the history of the
north-south dialogue.
It, referring to the head of the delegation of the north side, made
such coarse words as "figure hardly recognizable", "abnormal practice"
and "incongruity of common sense and international standard".
This provocation barred the talks from being opened and our delegation was compelled to cancel its trip to Seoul.
The south side demanded the director of the United Front Department
head the delegation as he is counterpart of the minister of Unification
of the south side, a revelation of its ignorance of the social system in
the DPRK.
Never has there been such a precedent in which a secretary of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea officially took part in
the talks between the authorities in the decades-long history of the
north-south dialogue.
As for the agenda of the talks, the south side tried hard not to
specify the joint commemoration of the anniversaries of the June 15
joint declaration and the July 4 joint statement and NGOs' visits and
contacts and cooperation even though it said that it affirmatively
accepted the special statement issued by the CPRK spokesman on June 6.
It even tried to make the draft agreement ambiguous by deleting such
expressions as "normalization" and "resumption" regarding the Kaesong
Industrial Zone and tour of Mt. Kumgang resort.
It was due to such vicious obstructions and deliberate disruption of
the south side that the working contact lasted 16 hours and barely came
to an end after three o'clock in the following morning even though an
agreement could be reached in just one or two hours. So, the agreed
document failed to take the form of full agreement but the form of
incomplete press release.
This fully proves that the south side had no intent to hold dialogue
from the beginning and that it only sought to create an obstacle to the
talks, delay and torpedo them after reluctantly taking part in the
talks, far from solving issues at the negotiating table.
In the past we sent the first vice director of the Secretariat of
the CPRK in the capacity of the Cabinet chief councilor as the head of
the north-south ministerial talks and the vice director of the CPRK
Secretariat always dealt with the vice-minister of Unification of south
Korea.
This time we let the director of the CPRK Secretariat head our
delegation instead of the first vice director in consideration of the
face of the authorities of the south side.
Nevertheless, the south side claimed that the head of our delegation
is not on a par with the head of its delegation. This is a revelation
of its ignorance. This cannot be construed otherwise than a deliberate
act to make the talks abortive.
The problem raised this time is not a simple issue related to the
level of the head of the delegation to the talks but a manifestation of
its sinister intention to make the talks between authorities abortive as
it found it hard to realize its scenario for abusing the talks for the
purpose of confrontation as intended by it
The recent impolite and immoral provocative behavior of the puppet
group made us think once again whether it will be possible either to
properly discuss matters or improve the inter-Korean relations even if
the talks between authorities are opened in the future.
The puppet conservative group would be seriously mistaken if it
calculates it can gain something by advocating "confrontation
accompanied by dialogue" dating back to the outdated "yusin" era or
sticking to "the theory of adhering to principle" touted by traitor Lee
Myung Bak and it is, therefore, fated to meet the same miserable end as
that of its predecessors.
We have nothing to expect from the talks between authorities of the north and the south. -0-
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