calendar>>October 9. 2015 Juche 104

Minju Joson Accuses Chairman of S. Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff of His Anti-DPRK Remarks

Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Ri Sun Jin, who held the post as chairman of the south Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a "National Assembly" confirmation hearing on Oct. 7 blustered that Yonphyong Island shelling incident five years ago was a "provocation made by the north." He uttered that he would make the "north bitterly regret it" and he would become "chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be feared by the enemy." He cried out for "striking at the base of provocation when the north launches shelling," while talking such rubbish that the south Korean army is "capable of doing so alone" without approval of the U.S. forces.

Minju Joson Friday observes in a commentary in this regard:

What he uttered is an undisguised provocation to the DPRK as it chills the hard-won atmosphere of improving the inter-Korean relations.

The Yonphyong Island shelling incident was a product of plot, confrontation and war moves orchestrated by the south Korean military warmongers in league with outsiders for aggression.

As already known to everybody, over one month has passed since an agreement was reached between the north and the south but the south Korean authorities deliberately linked the "mine" which went off for unknown reason with the DPRK and floated the fiction about "provocation from the north in October", laying a stumbling block in the way for mending the inter-Korean relations.

The bellicose remarks made by Ri against this backdrop clearly prove that the "dialogue" and "peaceful unification" touted by the south Korean authorities are no more than a fig-leaf to cover up their true colors as confrontation maniacs and that they remain unchanged in their ambition for achieving "unification of social systems" and "unification through absorption."

Should the south Korean bellicose forces seek confrontation with the DPRK to the last, it will only precipitate their self-destruction.