The puppet regime proposed ministerial-level talks and promised to send the minister of Unification as head of its delegation at a working-level contact with the north. However, it behaved so rudely as replacing him by a vice-minister of Unification just before the start of talks.

Not content with it, the puppet forces talked such rubbish as the head of the north's delegation is "a figure hardly recognizable" and "it was contrary to common sense and international standard," aborting the talks.

This was a rude and immoral provocation unprecedented in the history of the north-south dialogue. It was such unpardonable hooliganism as making a mockery and fooling all Koreans desirous of national reconciliation, unity, peace and prosperity.

Such impudent behavior was a revelation of ignorance of the social system in the DPRK.

Whenever inter-Korean ministerial-level talks were held in the past period, the DPRK sent the first vice-director of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) who is in the capacity of the Cabinet chief councilor and a vice-director of the Secretariat always dealt with the vice-minister of Unification of south Korea. It is a well-known fact.

But this time the DPRK sent the director of the Secretariat of the CPRK, not the first vice-director.

This is an expression of the DPRK's sincere efforts to promote the mutual confidence by sincerely fulfilling the north-south commitments and achieve the unity of the nation without fail as desired by the compatriots.

The south Korean authorities must know well about the authority and level of the Secretariat of the CPRK.

The Secretariat of the CPRK is a prestigious official organ of the DPRK in name and reality which specially supervises the inter-Korean relations and looks after affairs related to reunification.

The south side should have properly approached the talks by sending its chief delegate in line with good faith of the north side and as it promised at the working-level contact.

Nevertheless, it unilaterally degraded the level of its chief delegate. It went the lengths of speaking ill of the delegation of the north side like a guilty party filing the suit first, aborting the talks. This is the height of impudence that can never be justifiable.

The political charlatans in south Korea are now going so foolish as to pressurize the north to make a concession by sticking to "confrontation accompanied by dialogue" and the "theory of adhering to principle" and thus improve their clout.

Their recent disgusting behavior that resulted in aborting the talks cannot be construed otherwise than a cynical ploy to realize the above-said scenario of those guys and their invariable intention to escalate the confrontation with compatriots.

The puppet forces will never be able to escape condemnation by all compatriots for their recent reckless provocation.