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Disarmament DocumentationBack to Disarmament Documentation North Korea 'scraps' political and military agreements with the South, 30 January 2009DPRK to Scrap All Points Agreed with S. Korea over Political and Military Issues, KCNA, 30 January 2009.
Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued a statement Friday in connection with the situation on the Korean Peninsula growing tenser as the days go by due to the south Korean conservative authorities' reckless moves to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK. Citing facts to prove that the Lee Myung Bak group, far from reflecting on the treacheries of pushing the north-south relations to a serious crisis, shamelessly is challenging the north, raising a hue and cry over the "threat from the north" and "adherence to principle," the statement said: The inter-Korean relations have reached such pass that there is neither way to improve them nor hope to bring them on track. The confrontation between the north and the south in the political and military fields has been put to such extremes that the inter-Korean relations have reached the brink of a war. The group of traitors has already reduced all the agreements reached between the north and the south in the past to dead documents. Under such situation it is self-evident that there is no need for the DPRK to remain bound to those north-south agreements. The statement vehemently denounced on behalf of all the Koreans the Lee group for having pushed the inter-Korean relations to the brink of a war through its moves to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK in gross violation of the inter-Korean agreements. In view of the prevailing situation the statement solemnly clarified as follows: First, all the agreed points concerning the issue of putting an end to the political and military confrontation between the north and the south will be nullified. Second, the Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-aggression, Cooperation and Exchange between the North and the South and the points on the military boundary line in the West Sea stipulated in its appendix will be nullified. Holding the Lee Myung Bak group wholly accountable for the present grave situation to which the inter-Korean relations have been pushed, the statement continued: Never to be condoned are the crimes the Lee group has committed against the nation and reunification by bedeviling overnight the inter-Korean relations that had favorably developed amidst the support and encouragement of all the Koreans and ruthlessly scrapping the inter-Korean agreements. The Lee group seems to wait for something, calling for "adhering to the principle" but it will only face a heavier blow and shameful destruction.
Source: Korean Central News Agency of the DPRK, www.kcna.co.jp. |