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Anachronistic Confrontation Doctrine Blasted

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The south Korean military authorities some time ago rattled on the reexamination of the "defense policy" involving the question of "principal enemy", singing duet with the United States taking issue with the self-defensive war deterrent of the DPRK. Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Thursday says:
    The "principal enemy" doctrine touted by the anti-reunification forces of south Korea is a doctrine of the era of confrontation, which regards the north, the same nation, as the chief "enemy" and an "object of removal". It never falls in line with the June 15 era of reunification today.
    The Koreans are a homogeneous nation which has inherited one and the same culture and tradition down through history. There is no contradiction and reason that should cause hostile feelings between the north and the south.
    The concept of "principal enemy" is the left-over of the era of inter-Korean confrontation.
    The earlier rulers of south Korea clung to moves for confrontation and war against the DPRK in collusion with outside forces after tailoring the inter-Korean relations to hostile relations, institutionally and legally.
    But, today, all the fellow countrymen are vigorously pushing forward the patriotic movement for reunification, hand in hand, following the idea of "By our nation itself" under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
    There is no justification to be obsessed with hostile feelings against fellow countrymen today when the two parts of the country promised each other in the joint declaration to join efforts of the nation and advance toward independent reunification and are hastening the fulfillment of this commitment.
    To stick to the anachronistic concept of "principal enemy" reveals the criminal intention to push the present north-south relations back to the era of confrontation.
    The principal enemy of our nation and its common target of toppling is the United States which is wrecking peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and bringing the clouds of war there.
    To declare the DPRK the "principal enemy" is, immediately, a negation of the June 15 joint declaration and a declaration of confrontation.