CCNR Spokesman Urges S. Korean Authorities to Stop Confrontation Moves

Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Consultative Council for National Reconciliation (CCNR) Thursday made public a statement as regards the confrontation racket and war frenzy being kicked up by the south Korean authorities from the outset of the new year. Denouncing the south Korean authorities' reckless act as an intolerable mockery of the good faith and magnanimity shown by the DPRK out of patriotism and a blatant challenge to the desire and wish of the nation, the statement clarified the following principled stand of the DPRK: 1. The south Korean authorities should sincerely look back on the outcome of their persistent policy of confrontation with the fellow countrymen in the north and make a fresh start with a decisive resolution to break with the wrong past. 2. The south Korean authorities should bear in mind that sycophancy toward the U.S. is not a way out for keeping their remaining days. 3. The south Korean authorities should immediately respond to the north's patriotic proposal for mending the inter-Korean relations and opening an avenue to independent reunification. If the south Korean authorities continuously resort to the confrontation racket and war moves going against the aspiration and demand of the nation and the trend of the times, they can never escape the severe punishment by the nation. -0-