A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea in a statement on Saturday said their strike is an eruption of anger and resistance of the south Korean media persons and all other people against the group of traitors abusing media for sycophancy and treachery, fascist rule, actions against reunification and confrontation with compatriots.

The statement accused the Lee group of making a retrogressive revision of laws on media to quell the public mind-set and opinion desirous of independence, democracy and reunification and planting ultra right vicious conservative elements among media and indiscriminately purging those media persons opposed to the moves to put media under government control after it came to power.

Having driven into an abyss of ruin, completely forsaken by the public, the group is setting all reptile media in motion in a last-ditch effort to escape a stern judgment in the upcoming elections through an unlimited false propaganda and spread of misinformation and thus stay in power come what may, the statement said, and went on:

It is quite natural that the fair-minded media persons of south Korea courageously turned out in the actions against the traitors' group to make the media serve it and reactionary, deploring the miserable reality of media reduced to a despicable servant for the puppet conservative group.

The media in the era of independent reunification should be a judge meting out punishment to the group of traitors keen on sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation against fellow countrymen and a bugler dynamically encouraging all Koreans in their general advance for independent reunification under the banner of "By our nation itself".

All the media persons in the DPRK are firmly convinced that the south Korean media persons will surely emerge victorious in their actions for bringing earlier an independent and democratic society and giving steady continuity to the trend of the June 15 era of reunification.