Protest message to chief delegate of south side
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The head of the north side to the north-south military working-level talks sent a message to the chief delegate of the south side on March 21 in protest against the anti-north loudspeaker propaganda intensified by the South Korean army in the frontal line area.
It says:
Your side is intensifying its loudspeaker propaganda, malignantly slandering the political mode and the social system in the north in all the frontal line areas, timed to coincide with the large-scale joint military exercises being staged with the U.S. against the north in violation of the basic spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. This drives the situation to the brink of a war.
Your side has slung mud at the north side hundreds of times only for the last one month since toward the end of February and this campaign is getting more serious.
This can not but be an act of perfidy as your side broke the promise made between the two sides after the adoption of the joint declaration to refrain from slandering each other.
The north side can not but take a serious view of this disturbing development.
The north side's soldiers in the frontal line area are greatly angered by the resumption of mud-slinging at the north side, unprecedented in its degree and content, soon after the emergence of the new rule.
It is our view that the anti-north smear campaign is prompted by a sinister intention to bedevil the favourably developing north-south relations and bring them back to those in the period of confrontation and mistrust.
We strongly demand your side stand to reason and stop at once the smear campaign and clear the frontal line areas of propaganda means, source of confrontation and conflict.
If your side does not take an immediate and practical measure to stop the campaign, your side will be held wholly responsible for the ensuing grave consequences.
