Senior N.K. Official Calls for Implementation of Inter-Korean Accords

A senior North Korean ruling party official called for the people's active and aggressive participation in implementing past inter-Korean summit agreements, the North's media reported.
North Korea on June 14 held a national meeting at the Central Hall of Workers to mark the 11th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration, according to the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS).
In a report at the meeting, Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, said the June 15, 2000 and Oct. 4, 2007 inter-Korean summit accords were "joint unification rivers that must be raised up until the day of (achieving) an independent unification."
"(We) will further activate and popularize the movements for implementing the June 15 and Oct. 4 agreements," Yang said.
The vice president also blamed the Seoul Lee Myung-bak government, alleging that it drove the inter-Korean relations to a "point of collapse" but lauded the opposition parties and liberal circles in the South for their support.
The leaders of the two Koreas have so far met twice, first in 2000 and again in 2007. Those meetings were held when South Korea was led by liberal presidents, Kim Dae-jung in 2000 and Roh Moo-hyun in 2007.
Inter-Korean relations have frayed badly since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008 with a policy to link aid to progress in ending the North's nuclear ambitions