A spokesman for the Literature and Art Sub-committee of the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in a statement issued Tuesday said:

This is an indication that the vicious and dastardly moves of the group of traitors to completely stamp out the idea of "By our nation itself" which has dynamically advanced the June 15 era in the sphere of literature and art of south Korea and benumb the south Koreans' thoughts have reached an extreme phase.

The Lee group is staging such farce as reproducing the above-said cheap films and TV dramas which were washed away by the strong trend of the June 15 era after being censured and rejected as garbage of history in south Korea in a bid to prop up the unpopular pro-U.S. conservative "government" and bring under control the situation in which it is driven into a crisis at home and abroad. This is, however, a serious miscalculation.

The people's sound thinking and morality cannot but be ruthlessly violated and the north-south relations can never be improved as long as sycophancy towards the U.S. is justified, fascists are allowed to ride roughshod and confrontation with fellow countrymen is incited in south Korea.

The Lee group is sadly mistaken if it thinks it can quell the just and patriotic thinking of the south Korean people desirous of national unity and reunification with chains of fascism.

The Lee group had better stop its rash acts and immediately halt its despicable smear campaign inciting north-south confrontation, well aware of the miserable end met by those who swam against the trend of the times.