In this regard, a spokesman for the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in a statement Saturday noted:

Such obstructive moves are an open negation of the north-south joint declaration supported and approved by all Koreans and an unpardonable challenge to them calling for its implementation.

From the beginning, the puppet forces opposed the opening of the joint events of the nation, claiming that such events are designed to "stir up conflict among south Koreans," they are pursuant to "the strategy of the united front" and "dialogue between authorities should be preceded" and the like. They also disallowed the participation of those concerned of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration in the working-level contact in Kaesong.

The puppet group persistently rejected the north side's just and magnanimous proposal to include the issue of the June 15 joint national events, in particular, as an agenda item and realize it without fail at the working-level contact for the talks between authorities of the north and the south of Korea. Consequently, it aborted the hard-won north-south dialogue quite contrary to elementary common sense and etiquette, making the joint events abortive.

The present puppet rulers are asserting that they cannot allow joint national events and dialogue should be conducted, taking "level" into proper consideration according to an international standard, as they cannot trust anyone with a hue and cry over "trust" whenever an opportunity presents itself.

All facts go to clearly prove that the "confidence-building process" touted by the puppet authorities is not a policy aimed to sincerely settle the inter-Korean relations but is nothing but rhetoric to mislead public opinion, and they remain unchanged in their sinister intention to fan up confrontation and hostility.

All Koreans are now standing at the crucial crossroads of whether they will pave a wide avenue for the nation by bringing back the June 15 era or they will allow the vicious cycle of confrontation with compatriots and tension repeat itself in the coming five years.

All Koreans will certainly force the puppet group to pay for its treacherous act of aborting the June 15 joint national events.