The statement accused the south Korean authorities of aborting the north-south high-level contact through their provocations.

They staged the largest-ever Hoguk-14 targeted against the DPRK and conducted the leaflet scattering operations against it.

Battleships of the south Korean puppet army are frequently intruding into territorial waters of the DPRK under the pretext of defending the illegal "northern limit line".

The puppet army recklessly fired bullets and shells at service personnel of the Korean People's Army on routine patrol duty in the area north of the Military Demarcation Line.

This being a hard reality, the south Korean authorities are claiming that the DPRK is putting up "unreasonable preconditions" despite its efforts for peace and reunification.

It is, however, the DPRK which has made every possible effort for the reunification of Korea.

The south Korean authorities are entirely to blame for the deterioration of the inter-Korean relations.

They should accept the DPRK's proposals for mending the relations.