The authorities and ultra-right conservative media of south Korea floated stories hurting the DPRK's proposal for dialogue and let loose a spate of provocative remarks against it. This has been a main cause of deteriorating north-south relations, the article said, adding:

One party's accusations and mud-slinging against the other party have seriously harmed the national reconciliation and unity and the north-south relations as they indicate animosity and mistrust.

It is not a proper approach towards dialogue to persistently react to the party reaching out with good faith with an ill will.

It is quite clear that it will be hard to properly hold dialogue and negotiations nor is it possible to frankly discuss issues related to the fate of the nation and its common interests, development and prosperity even if the north and the south sit at a negotiating table, as long as mud-slinging and provocative acts are allowed between them.

If south Korea stops unreasonable acts of hurting and slandering its fellow countrymen in response to the call of the DPRK, this will help create a favorable atmosphere for dialogue and negotiations.