The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea on Wednesday released a statement accusing South Korea of taking advantage of the sinking of its Cheonan warship in March to push north-south relations to a catastrophe.
In the statement released through the official KCNA news agency, the committee said the campaign against the DPRK launched by South Korea in the wake of the sinking of the Cheonan reached the height of its confrontation and war moves.
The authorities of the south side regard the accident as a golden opportunity for pushing north-south relations to a catastrophe, the statement said.
It warned that South Korea was “seriously mistaken if it thinks it can weather its domestic crisis by misleading the public opinion through such trite campaign as straining the situation and bedeviling the inter-Korean relations."
South Korea has violated the June 15, 2000 joint declaration and the October 4, 2007 declaration, pushing the inter-Korean cooperation to a collapse, the statement said.
At the end of the statement, the committee stressed stressed that the DPRK will never tolerate the confrontation and war moves of South Korea. If the south ignites a war together with the U.S., the DPRK will “mete out merciless and resolute punishment to the warmongers."
