"Joint statement" south side published with U.S. termed treacherous document
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 21 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary dismisses the "joint statement" recently published by South Korea with the U.S. as a treacherous one as it reconfirmed the master-servant relationship between the U.S. and South Korea and is peppered with provocative words getting on the nerves of the DPRK over the "nuclear issue."
The commentary says:
The south side's recent junket to the U.S. disappointed the whole nation because it blindly toed the U.S. line and asserted cooperation, thus hamstringing the process of warming up the inter-Korean relations in contravention of the basic spirit of the historic June 15 joint declaration.
As regards the DPRK's "nuclear issue", the south side supported the "consideration of further steps" and asserted "future inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation will be conducted in the light of developments on the nuclear issue."
This was little short of siding with the U.S. and yielding to it and a very dangerous move to increase the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
It was shame and disgrace for the south to have accepted the proposal for the "consideration of further steps" obsessed by war-phobia, instead of helping the Americans cool their heads overheated with hysteria of war against its fellow countrymen, despite the fact that the U.S. is unreasonably demanding the DPRK scrap its "nuclear weapons program" and there is, therefore, an increasing danger of a war.
The public at home and abroad is now deeply concerned about this humiliating diplomacy.
The DPRK has already clarified that it will regard any "sanctions" to be applied against it as a declaration of war. Any "further steps" mentioned in the "joint statement" are bound to entail unpredictable consequences on the Korean Peninsula. In that case the U.S. and the south side will have to be held fully accountable for them.
