Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.

It is a totally far-fetched assertion and a product of the fascist plot to eliminate the patriotic organizations for the reunification movement that the Lee clique is branding the just activities of the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration as "a violation of the National Security Law," the commentary notes, and goes on:

It is preposterous and sheer sophism intended to hatch a plot for the Lee clique to claim that the reunification movement was waged by the solidarity at the "instruction of the north".

Serious hurdles are lying in the way of implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and the inter-Korean relations are being brought back to the past era of acute confrontation due to the Lee clique's treacherous and anti-reunification stand and moves.

The Lee clique is the anti-reunification forces which can never be pardoned as it sells off the dignity and sovereignty of the country and nation to outside forces in a bid to gratify its wild ambition to stay in power, drops a check-bar on the efforts to achieve national reunification vital to the destiny of the compatriots and runs amuck to crack down upon the pro-reunification patriotic forces.

The Lee clique should face up to the trend of the June 15 era of reunification and immediately stop the fascist suppression of the reunification movement organizations and release those who were unreasonably arrested.