KCNA Commentary Urges S. Korea to Clarify Its Stand toward North-South Relations

Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- Undesirable acts still persist in south Korea in the new year against the DPRK's goodwill and generosity for the improved north-south relations and the fellow countrymen's desire for national unity and reunification.
On Jan. 5, human scum of the "movement for directly helping compatriots in the north", an organization of "defectors from the north", conducted the scattering of over 1.3 million leaflets slandering the dignity and social system of the DPRK toward its area from Cholwon, Kangwon Province of south Korea.
Such reckless act was done at a time when all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad were eagerly hoping to see the mended north-south relations and opening of a broad avenue for the independent reunification after receiving the patriotic New Year address of supreme leader Kim Jong Un . It is a blatant challenge to the DPRK's sincere stand and appeal for the improved north-south relations and national reunification and a last-ditch effort to obstruct the improvement of north-south relations and spoil an atmosphere of dialogue.
This confrontation operation was not conducted by some human scum only but the U.S. and the right-wing conservative forces of south Korea were behind them.
It is a well-known fact that the U.S. has funded the human scum, who fled their homes after committing all sorts of crimes, to conduct anti-DPRK leaflet scattering operations since its military blackmail, political and diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions and other unprecedented obstructive moves didn't work on the DPRK advancing under the banner of independence, Songun and socialism.
At the beginning of the new year the U.S. announced new sanctions against the DPRK to stand against the improvement of relations and dialogue between the north and the south of Korea. Not content with such measure, it prodded even the human scum into an anti-DPRK confrontation racket.
Those human scum live on the money paid by the U.S. in return for their shock-brigade role in its disgusting anti-DPRK moves, including the leaflet scattering.
The south Korean regime, too, has connived at and incited the leaflet scattering by such betes noires, pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
The recent leaflet-scattering operation conducted in the area along the Military Demarcation Line, the biggest hotspot, would have been checked in advance if the south Korean authorities had done what they should do. But, they remained an onlooker to this reckless leaflet scattering that was strongly opposed even by local inhabitants.
The south Korean authorities have suppressed people of different social strata, critical of them including the chief executive, by invoking various "laws" but overlooked the anti-DPRK leaflet scattering by the human scum under the pretext of "freedom of expression" and the like. This is a self-contradictory behavior.
Conniving at a crime precisely means conspiracy with it. The south Korean regime's attitude towards the recent leaflet-scattering operation clearly proved that it is in the same boat with the human scum.
It is the demand of the DPRK that the north and the south of Korea stop fighting each other and share one purpose and join efforts in order to write a new history of their relations. However, the south Korean regime reacted to this just demand and call with confrontation moves, which fully reveals that "dialogue" and "improved relations" much touted by it are nothing but empty words.
As already declared, the DPRK will never pardon any reckless act of insulting its social system, the life and soul and dignity of its people.
The south Korean authorities should not forget the fact that last year the atmosphere of dialogue, created with Inchon visit by the director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army and his party as a momentum, was spoiled due to the human scum's leaflet scattering, consequently driving the north-south relations to an uncontrollable phase.
The north-south relations can be hardly improved by one side's efforts alone.
The south Korean authorities should clarify the stand on the north-south relations--whether they will push the relations again to a catastrophic phase by conniving at the reckless acts of a handful of those who are more dead than alive or come out with sincerity for their improvement and dialogue.
We will follow their future attitude.