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KCNA on S. Korean Military's Ill-boding Moves

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- The south Korean military is operating a "joint team to implement its counter-measure" made up of armed forces and coastal police in the waters off the west coast, talking about the "northern limit line," according to the south Korean KBS. At the same time it decided to build anti-tank barriers along roads and railways on the west and the east coasts allegedly to strengthen the military posture towards the north.
    This is a very disturbing development inciting confrontation as they are intended to create difficulties in the way of improving the inter-Korean relations.
    As well known to all, the north-south relations that have been favorably improving in the wake of the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration had to undergo a series of crisis due to provocative incidents the bellicose forces of the south Korean military perpetrated in the West Sea under the pretext of defending the "northern limit line", an illegal line. It is clear to everyone that military measures taken in the waters off the west coast such as the operation of the above-said team are likely to spark new political and military provocations, as precedents proved.
    The south Korean military's plan to build anti-tank barriers along roads and railways while crying out for taking military posture against the north and describing cooperation and exchange including the project to reconnect rail links between the north and the south as a threat clearly shows that they have not yet dropped their anti-national stance to incite confrontation with the north, seized by the conception of "principal enemy" which calls for regarding the fellow countrymen in the north as enemy, relying on outsiders.
    It was only recently that the military staged large-scale north-targeted war exercises with the U.S. one after another, inciting the confrontation between the fellow countrymen and creating difficulties in the north-south relations. It even took part in the reckless criminal moves intended to strain the situation in and around the Korean peninsula.
    All this can not be construed otherwise than a treacherous act of chilling the Koreans' patriotic will for reunification and national cooperation in the idea of "By our nation itself" clarified in the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    The south Korean military will have to pay a very high price if it persistently clings to the moves to incite confrontation between the north and the south in contravention of the basic spirit of the historic joint declaration.