Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- Stressing the need to "defend the basis of the policy toward the north", the south Korean ruling forces are these days talking about its "flexibility" to create an impression that they are interested in the settlement of the inter-Korean relations issue.

In this regard Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says in a bylined article:

This is no more than an ulterior scheme to escape the accusations of people at home and abroad against their anti-reunification crimes that drove the inter-Korean relations into a collapse and persist in showdown with the DPRK.

The present bedeviled north-south relations are an inevitable result of the policy of confrontation with the DPRK enforced by the south Korean conservative authorities.

The DPRK's efforts to mend the worsened north-south relations were consistent and sincere. This initiative and earnest effort resulted in a series of dialogues between the two sides.

However, such dialogues failed to bear any fruition. It is because the south Korean conservative group has remained unchanged in its policy to realize the ambition for "unification of systems" through confrontation with the DPRK. In actuality the south Korean authorities have persisted in the confrontation policy, declaring that there would be no change in the "policy toward the north" as long as the north remains unchanged and that the framework of this policy would be maintained.

The reality shows that it is impossible to improve the north-south relations as long as the south Korean authorities remain unchanged in its policy of confrontation.