KCNA Commentary Slams S. Korean Minister of Unification's Confrontational Remarks

Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) -- As already reported, the DPRK proposed the south Korean authorities through various occasions and channels to properly understand the strong will of the fellow countrymen to improve the inter-Korean relations and accomplish the national historic cause of independent reunification, and take a responsible and reasonable option. However, the south Korean conservative authorities are responding to the proposal with extremely provocative and ill-minded remarks, stirring up the atmosphere of confrontation. Hong Yong Phyo, minister of Unification, is taking the lead in the confrontation racket. All what he is uttering these days is nothing but ridiculous jargons made by a confrontation maniac bereft of elementary sense of reality and ability to judge things. He went the lengths of taking issue with the DPRK's proposal for holding military talks between the north and the south, groundlessly terming it "one for evading the responsibility for nuclear development" and crying out for "breaking the north's will to develop nuclear weapons." This betrays his IQ as an under-wit as he is ignorant of what is going on in the world. No sooner had Hong taken the above-said office than he reeled off a litany of provocative remarks against the north only to come under strong public fire. The south Korean authorities had better behave themselves, judging with cool heads what tragic consequences will be entailed by their bat-blind act of refusing to accept the most fair and aboveboard and patriotic proposal of the DPRK. -0-