Improving the inter-Korean relations is a national historic task which brooks no further delay, it says, adding:

Whoever is concerned for the nation's destiny in the least should not remain a passive onlooker to the present north-south relations exposed to the danger of a nuclear war against the north.

The improved north-south relations will help defuse the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and open up a broad avenue to independent reunification.

However, the south Korean authorities are now further escalating the tension by persistently kicking up the anti-DPRK confrontation racket in collusion with outside forces, far from responding to the compatriots' goodwill and magnanimous offer for improved north-south relations.

If they groundlessly distrust and persist in confrontation with the compatriots who want the reconciliation and unity, the north-south relations can never be repaired.

They should ponder over the meaning of the DPRK's call and think twice over the consequences to be entailed by their acts of going against it.

If they opt for the reconciliation and unity between the north and the south and their improved relations by making a switchover in their anachronistic confrontation policy, an epochal phase of peace and reunification will be opened.

The south Korean authorities should come to their senses, though belatedly, and do something helpful to improving the north-south relations now in the catastrophic phase and achieving peace and reunification.