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North to Send Players' Team and Supporters' Group to Taegu Universiad

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland today issued the following statement clarifying the north's decision to send its players' team and supporters' group to the 22nd Universiad to be held in Taegu of south Korea, considering it to be a good thing for the south to have made an apology for the anti-north racket perpetrated by the anti-reunification group of south Korea in Seoul on August 15 in which it clearly expressed regret at it and promised the north that it would prevent the recurrence of such incident: The decision taken by the north is a clear proof of its patriotic will and broad magnanimity to set store by the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and achieve national cooperation in its basic spirit.
    The Grand National Party and other ultra-right conservative forces in south Korea have, in fact, come out to bar the north's delegation of sportspersons from visiting south Korea. But the north took this decision prompted by its desire to get reconciled with fellow countrymen and unite with them to achieve reunification.
    Reflected in the decision are the warm compatriotic feelings of the northerners towards the south Korean brothers and sisters.
    This visit to the south clearly proves that no matter how desperate the anti-reunification forces in south Korea may become in their moves they can never stem the nation's trend to become one.
    The north's players team and supporters' group will strive to make the Taegu Universiad offer an important occasion in demonstrating to the world the true appearance of one Korea in which north and south Koreans would firmly join hands with each other, away from the idea of contending for victory just as they did in the Pusan Asian Games last year.