Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- The bankruptcy of the north-south relations is attributable to the south Korean conservative authorities' confrontation policy. If they are to take the first step for improving those relations, they should make a fundamental switchover in their policy, to begin with. It is the only way for repairing the inter-Korean relations to respect and implement the historic June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration. Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a bylined article.

A lot of events and miracles unprecedented in the more than half century-long history of national division had taken place in the inter-Korean relations since the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration, the article notes, and goes on:

When the Koreans uphold the above-said declarations, the inter-Korean relations will develop into the relations based on the spirit of "By our nation itself" and those of reconciliation and cooperation both in name and reality.

When the north and the south respect and implement those declarations, they can certainly get united and work miracles once again. The above-said declarations provide a key to mending the strained inter-Korean relations.

For the south Korean authorities to respect the north-south declarations amounts to the first step in improving the inter-Korean relations. In order to improve these relations the south Korean authorities should make a switchover in their "policy towards the north" and thus show their willingness to respect and implement the declarations, first of all.

Now is the time for the south Korean authorities to officially clarify their will for respecting and implementing those declarations. They should, at the same time, halt such rash acts for escalating confrontation as persistent provocations, plot-hatching and smear campaign against compatriots.

Such acts are traitorous acts of further bedeviling the inter-Korean relations.

The above-said declarations should be respected and implemented as it is the only way for saving the inter-Korean relations from a total collapse.