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6th Inter-Korean General-Level Military Talks Close

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

   Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The 6th north-south general-level military talks closed Thursday.
    At the talks both sides continued the discussion on the issues of preventing clashes in the waters of the West Sea of Korea and realizing joint fishing there.
    In the whole course of the talks, the north side repeatedly advanced innovative proposals helpful to the discussion of the issues in line with the spirit of attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity and has made every sincere effort for their realization.
    However, the south side deliberately laid obstacles in the way of the talks, insisting on its wrong assertions, not away from its obstinate conception of confrontation.
    As regards this wrong attitude on the part of the south side, the north side officially expressed its stand that there is no need to continue the north-south general-level talks under the situation where the south side negates the talks themselves.
    The north side further stated: If the south side truly sets store by the talks and wants to bring about progress in the discussion on the agenda item, it should not merely talk that it is "responsible" for the building of a peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula but prove such claim in practice, to begin with. It should not merely vociferate that it is necessary to don "new clothes" in order to put the inter-Korean relations on a higher stage but put off the dress dating back to the era of confrontation as early as possible.
    The south side should drop its sinister aim to indefinitely drag on the discussion on the agenda item, insisting on a series of unreasonable conditionalities but become a dialogue partner true to the stand of attaching importance to the nation and placing it above anything else in line with the trend of the June 15 era of reunification before coming out to the negotiating table.
    The talks can be resumed any time when the south side is ready to accept the north side's just proposal and assertions, deeply reflecting on its wrong attitude, declared the north side.