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KCNA Slams Disturber of National Cooperation

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) --The joint New Year editorial of the newspapers of the Party, the army and the youth league set forth the slogan for the reunification movement for this year "Let us pave a wide avenue for independent reunification through national cooperation under the banner of our nation-first spirit!" The United States is chiefly to blame for hamstringing national cooperation and wrecking peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. has left no means untried to drive a wedge between the north and south of Korea, the relations of which have favorably developed since the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. It sparked a new nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula, thus increasing the danger of a war.
    The U.S. has worked hard to internationalize the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and use it as a pretext for provoking a new war. It is an unpardonable criminal move to impose the disaster of a nuclear war upon the Korean nation and its land.
    The U.S. has actively pushed ahead with its moves to re-locate its forces and military bases in south Korea, according to its re-deployment plan of its forces. They are aimed to launch another Korean war by the method of a "preemptive attack" and realize its strategy of military supremacy in East Asia with ease.
    It is a daydream to think that it is possible to avert the danger of a war and achieve economic stability only when depending on the U.S., prompted by an illusion about it.
    The aggressive nature of the Iraqi war, which the U.S. unilaterally launched defying the opposition of the international community including the UN, has been proved with added clarity as the days go by. Yielding to the U.S. pressure for troop dispatch is as foolish an act as escalating the danger of a war and deepening the economic instability, and little short of a suicidal act as it means betraying the fundamental interests of the nation.
    The U.S. has persistently stood in the way of the north-south cooperation including tour of Mt. Kumgang and the re-linking of the inter-Korean railways. This clearly proves that the U.S. is, indeed, a disturber of the national cooperation.
    The U.S. does not want the reunification of the Korean peninsula and improved inter-Korean relations. And it does not care whether the Korean nation remains divided into two or suffers a nuclear disaster as it is keen only on its own interests.
    The successive U.S. administrations have fished in troubled waters and justified its military presence in south Korea, its arms build-up and its moves for a war against the north, stoking hostility between the north and the south under the absurd pretext of "threat" from somebody.
    The U.S. has deliberately fanned up the confrontation between the two parts of Korea in a bid to perpetuate its division and use the confrontation as a leverage to realize its Asian strategy, the strategy for world supremacy.
    The publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, however, provided the Korean nation with a great programme for national reunification reflecting its desire. Through a nation-wide struggle to defend and implement the joint declaration the Koreans could more clearly see through the true colors of the U.S. as the architect of national division.
    The anti-U.S. struggle for independence raging in south Korea in the new century clearly testifies to the historical truth that the U.S. is the root cause of all the misfortunes and sufferings of the Korean nation.
    As clarified in the joint editorial, the north and the south should take practical actions to cope with the nation's confrontation with the U.S. in order to defend the peace of the country and achieve its reunification.