CPRK Statement Warns S. Korean Authorities Not to Go Reckless

Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) released a statement on Thursday in connection with the fact that the situation of the country is getting worse due to the frantic confrontational racket of the south Korean authorities. The army and people of the DPRK earnestly called on the south Korean authorities to tide over the prevailing difficult situation and open up a path to improving the relations through the publication of the joint statement of the DPRK government, political parties and organizations and the proposal to hold the talks between military authorities of the north and the south, pursuant to the new line and policy for national reunification set forth at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. But the first answer given by the south Korean authorities to it was far-fetched assertions such as "denuclearization first and dialogue next", "propaganda offensive devoid of sincerity" and politically-motivated vicious provocation and the first practical response made by it was reckless firing with the mobilization of military gangsters. Denouncing this as an unpardonable mockery of the patriotic measure taken by the DPRK and a vicious challenge to the desire and wish of all the fellow countrymen, the statement clarified the following principled stand: 1.If the south Korean authorities act without discretion, far from clearly studying the deep meaning of the patriotic appeal and proposal made by the DPRK and making responsible option, our response to it will be the toughest offensive aimed to push them deeper into the abyss and lead them faster to self-destruction. 2.If the south Korean authorities respond to our just proposal for defusing tension and ensuring peace on the Korean peninsula with reckless military action, our response to them will be merciless physical option. 3.Those who ceaselessly spout out provocative invectives against the DPRK will not be able to evade miserable fate, being branded as confrontation maniacs and traitors to the nation. -0-