It is quite natural for south Koreans of different social standings to turn out in protest against the Lee Myung Bak regime's anti-DPRK moves in order to punish it in the "presidential election" and mend the north-south ties, says the article, adding:

After the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration, the north and the south promoted dialogue, cooperation and exchange to alleviate misunderstanding and mistrust and make epochal achievements in the movement for national reunification, unprecedented in the nation's history of the division.

All these, however, came to naught after Lee Myung Bak took office as he singled out the confrontation with fellow countrymen as its policy.

Because the north-south relations affect the nation's destiny, the DPRK has given rational recommendations to the south Korean ruling forces and made sincere efforts to open up a way of dialogue and cooperation with utmost patience.

However, the Lee Myung Bak regime took a negative approach toward the DPRK's will for normalizing north-south relations and resorted to more frantic anti-DPRK confrontation moves in collusion with foreign forces.

The past five years brought home to south Koreans the fact that what the Lee Myung Bak group wanted was the confrontation, not the improved north-south relations, and that it would bring only a war disaster.

South Koreans are determined to change the regime without fail because they are convinced that if the conservative "Saenuri Party" comes to power, it will be impossible to improve the north-south relations.