GNP's assertion blasted
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The Grand National Party and some conservative media of South Korea have recently heaped accusations on the north, claiming its assertion about the issue of "special inspection" is "interference in S. Korea's internal affair". In this regard, Rodong Sinmun yesterday in a signed commentary dismissed it as a folly of political imbeciles.
The commentary went on:
The issue of cooperation between the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) and Hyundai of South Korea is not the issue confined to the south only. It is the one directly related to reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and unity and reunification of the whole Korean nation.
The cooperation between them is an issue directly related to the interests of the whole nation. Yet, the GNP and some conservative media of South Korea are insisting on "special inspection" over the issue of the whole nation, the issue of north-south relations, to stoke confrontation. This can never be an internal issue of South Korea. The above-said cooperation in particular is a very important issue of the whole nation as it is related to the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration supported and welcomed by the Korean nation.
Therefore, it can not be an affair confined to South Korea only.
The GNP demanded "special inspection" over this issue, prompted by its aim to serve its partisan interests and realize its strategy. This is intended to bring the inter-Korean relations back to those in the era of confrontation. Then how can the action taken to disclose such anti-national, anti-reunification behaviour of the party be interpreted as interference in the south's internal affair?
It has become more obvious that the north's assertion can never be interference in the south's internal affair now that the GNP linked the issue of "remittance to the north" to the historic Pyongyang meeting, which culminated in the publication of the June 15 Joint Declaration. On the contrary, it is interference in the north's internal affair to link the inter-Korean relations to the non-existent issue.
They should call a spade a spade.
The GNP and conservative media of South Korea are well advised to behave themselves, clearly aware what adverse impact their reckless diatribe will have on the inter-Korean relations and how seriously they will affect their fate.
