South Korean People's Struggle to Implement

the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration

Today the south Korean people are energetically conducting the reunification movement upholding the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, the signpost for Korea’s reunification.

Members of the Solidarity for Realizing the June 15 South-North Joint Declaration, the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification, the South Korean Federation of University Student Councils, the National Federation of Peasants Associations, the Struggle Headquarters of the June 15 Youth and Students Solidarity to Oust the Lee Myong-bak Regime, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other civic organizations are in unison in protesting against traitor Lee.

They asserted that since Lee took power the inter-Korean relations have got worsened and there is no sign of willingness to implement the inter-Korean declarations from the current regime even today after the new year, and vehemently denounced Lee who designated a man who contrived such confrontational policy as “No nukes, opening and 3 000$” as a minister of unification.

They held that negating the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, the program of Korea’s reunification, is equal to a treason, and stressed that they would more vigorously wage the all-people struggle to defend and implement the declarations together with the people from all walks of life.

The south Korean opposition parties including the Democratic Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Creative South Korean Party convened a contingency meeting to break through the crisis of the inter-Korean relations on November 30 last year in protest against the anti-reunification moves of traitor Lee, and strongly urged the Lee clique to switch over the hard-line policy toward the north to the policy of reconciliation and cooperation between the south and the north.

Meanwhile, progressive reform-minded members in the Democratic Party of south Korea announced the inauguration of the “Democratic Solidarity” keynote of which is “foundation of anti-Lee Myong-bak solidarity”, decided to hold various functions including the “grand peace march for urging the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration” against the anti-reunification and unpopular policies of traitor Lee, and called for forming a “grand alliance for people's livelihood and democracy” against traitor Lee.

The anti-north confrontational policy of traitor Lee will not escape the total ruin by more vigorous struggle of the south Korean people to implement the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.

Reckless Moves to Invade the North

The US imperialists and the south Korean warmongers get more frantic with their war moves to invade the north from the dawn of the New Year.

Days ago, the troops, tanks, armored vehicles and artillery force of the US 2^nd Division occupying south Korea ran amuck in joint ground fire striking drills in the Dongducheon area, Gyeonggi Province, and there took place aerial fire striking exercises of a combat aerial brigade under the US 2^nd division from January 14.

The US imperialists staged the madcap war exercises against the north by mobilizing huge air and ground forces across south Korea as their operation theater from January 12 to 17.

And combat bombers, pursuit assault planes, aircrafts of special operations, patrol planes, refueling tankers and commanding planes were deployed at the US air bases in south Korea from the overseas bases one after another, and some 580 aircrafts of diverse missions were busy in the exercises of striking depth-objects, near-by aerial support and aerial combat from January 14 to 16.

Taking advantage of the US war moves against the north, the south Korean puppet army as well conducted viciously war drills to complete the combat action proceedings in every stage and bound, and test the feasibility of combined operations according to the north-targeted “Operational Plan 5027-04” by committing tremendous troops and war hardware of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 5^th, and 6^th corps from January 7 to 24.

The units under the 1^st and 3^rd field corps staged the “severe winter exercises” in imagination of real war from January 12 to 24, thus aggravating the confrontational atmosphere against the north.

The puppet navy conducted joint striking drills together with live shooting exercises by intensively mobilizing missiles, 155mm howitzers and warships deployed in and around Baekryung and Yunpyung islets in Korean West Sea, the acute area of militarily facedown between the north and the south, from January 5 to 9.

They staged the rehearsals of urgent sailing and deployment, setup of operational formations and fire striking drills in the Yunpyung waters as their operation theatre on January 14 and reinforced with 2 warships in this area on January 20.  

The US imperialists and the south Korean belligerent maniacs should stop the war moves to invade the DPRK, plainly mindful that their reckless war drills are grave crimes that wreck peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and further push the inter-Korean relations into showdown and catastrophe.