Tuesday 14 August 2018

Obstacles to Implementing Declaration Should be Removed: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- More than 100-day course for the implementation of the historic Panmunjom Declaration after its adoption has made obvious the attitude of south Koreans of all standings toward the declaration.

The overwhelming majority of people have hoped for the all-inclusive and thorough-going implementation of the declaration amid the estimation made by the authorities and the ruling party that "south-north relations have turned over a new leaf, going beyond the level of restoration" and "peace has become something common".

On the other hand, the "Liberal Korea Party", "Parun Mirae Party" and some other forces are still viciously slandering it, talking about "the north making a U-turn", "opposition to loosened sanctions", "declaration of nuclear activity", etc.

The April 27 Panmunjom Declaration became a historical landmark as it opened a new era toward independence, reunification, peace and prosperity after putting an end to division and stand-off, and no one can fault this.

It is truly regretful, however, that the Declaration is not being implemented expeditiously as against the expectations of all Koreans and the international community.

At the end of reading the face of outsiders, the LKP and other conservative dissident parties are now holding back the "government", openly taking up the cudgels against the Declaration, and even the adoption of the resolution supporting the Declaration is now at the point of being dropped at the "National Assembly".

Looking back on the checkered history of the past north-south joint declarations, the conservative forces have remained unchanged in their vicious try against reunification and the nation, and this is never tolerable.

Claiming a "lost decade", the conservative forces turned into a scrap paper the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration signed by the north and the south, and with the presentation of such confrontation-minded policies and evil laws as "denuclearization, opening and 3 000 dollars", "Dresden Declaration" and "anti-terrorism law", they pushed the north-south ties to a stalemate.

The LKP and other conservative forces that inherited the baton of these crimes are now going desperate to reduce the Panmunjom Declaration into a dead document and to hold in check the advance toward peace, prosperity and reunification of the Korean peninsula.

These obstacles have to be cleared in order to ensure proper implementation of the Panmunjom Declaration.

The south Koreans from all walks of life have to intensify the struggle for implementing the Panmunjom Declaration and cleaning up the evils of society to marginalize forever the group of traitorous conservatives making last-ditch efforts. -0-

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