The Lee group has worked hard to bring to naught all the achievements made in the June 15 era of reunification while calling for making up for the "lost decade" since its seizure of power, the article notes, and goes on:

The group of traitors have slandered the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, great programmes common to the nation for independent reunification, and hamstrung the efforts to implement them, blustering that "unification on the basis of the June 15 joint declaration should never be allowed" and "the present government is not obliged to honor the commitments which the preceding government made".

What should not be overlooked is that the group has gone so fool as to seek to pull down the system in the north while raising a hue and cry over the "emergency situation", seized with the wild ambition for "unification through the absorption of the north".

The Lee group has totally negated the historic north-south joint declarations and their basic ideas, describing the June 15 era of reunification as the "lost decade" though it paved a wide avenue for reconciliation and unity of the nation and dared defame even the supreme dignity of the DPRK while pursuing anachronistic confrontational policy. This is a never-to-be pardoned politically-motivated provocation.

The group's reckless confrontational racket is an intolerable act of treachery aimed to stem the trend of the nation's history toward independent reunification and peace and prosperity in collusion with outsiders, bring the north-south relations back to those in the past and thus perpetuate the national division and do harm to the DPRK with the backing of outsiders.

The stand and attitude to the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration serve as a touchstone discerning harmony between the north and the south from confrontation and reunification from division.

The improvement of the north-south relations and the progress of the cause of national reunification entirely depend on the successful implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for putting it into practice. The north-south relations would be unthinkable without implementing the above-said declarations.

The June 15 era of reunification is sure to make steady dynamic progress and bring about the new victorious history of independent reunification and peace and prosperity by throwing overboard the ultra-right conservative anti-reunification forces keen on sycophancy toward the U.S., the article concludes.