UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
Korean Reunification Policies
August 18, 1999
KOREAS:
SOURCE:
KCNA news agency, PyongyangText of report in English by the North Korean news agency KCNA Pyongyang, 17th August: A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea today issued a statement laying bare the true nature of the "Sunshine Policy" peddled by the South Korean authorities trying to beg for support to it.
Their "Sunshine Policy" is a variant of "peaceful transition strategy" of the United States. It is an intrigue to induce the North to "reform" and "opening" under the cloak of "reconciliation" and "cooperation" and thus realize "unification by absorbing" the North and bringing it under their system of free democracy.
Referring to the fact that the South Korean authorities recently decided to call the "Sunshine Policy", which was picked from a Greek fable, "engagement policy" because it was disliked by the US, the spokesman says that all these facts clearly prove that their loudmouthed "engagement" is frivolous and brazen-faced deception. The statement continues:
Although they are talking about "reconciliation" and "cooperation" with the North, they are making frenzied efforts to militarily stifle the DPRK in league with outsiders behind the scene.
The South Korean authorities continue shipping lethal weapons into South Korea to kill fellow countrymen and to launch aggression on the DPRK in "cooperation" with the US and Japan and are carrying out all kinds of joint military exercises one after another as an annual event. They went the length of begging the US to keep its forces on the Korean Peninsula even after reunification. This is the true anti-peace nature of the present South Korean authorities.
They are paying lip service to "reconciliation" and "cooperation" with the North, but they are building higher institutional and physical barriers to bar them, the statement notes, and goes on:
They are keeping the "National Security Law" which defines the DPRK as enemy and have consolidate the "Agency for National Security Planning", the anti-North plot breeding centre, as the "National Intelligence Service" and have made the concrete wall, a symbol of national shame, a permanent barrier blocking the inter-Korean visits.
The present South Korean authorities are also suppressing those personages and organizations involved in the pro-reunification patriotic movement on charges of "enemy-benefiting acts" and defining them "enemy-benefiting organizations". They are even turning a blind eye to an extremely elementary humanitarian issue of repatriating unconverted long-term prisoners to their families in the North and openly taking such anti-reunification step as issuing a warrant of arrest for delegates of pro-reunification movement organizations now in Pyongyang who participated in the pro-reunification festival.
All these facts clearly prove that the "Sunshine Policy" on their lips is a product of the most vicious anti-national, anti-reunification and anti-North confrontation intrigue. There can be no slightest vacillation and change in the rock-firm faith and will of the DPRK government and people to defend and consolidate to the last the Korean-style socialism which was chosen and built by the Korean people themselves.
Therefore, the South Korean authorities' "Sunshine Policy" through which they are trying to degenerate and undermine the socialist system in the North to "absorb" it and bring it under their system of free democracy will bring nothing but North-South confrontation and war.
Korea's reunification should be achieved by the conferral formula on the basis of three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity and according to the 10 point programme for the great unity of the entire nation which the North and South agreed upon and solemnly declared at home and abroad.
We express the expectation and belief that all the peace-loving governments and people around the world who are concerned about peace, stability and reunification on the Korean Peninsula will have a correct understanding of it and extend positive support and encouragement to the efforts of the DPRK government and people to achieve them.
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