S. Korean Authorities’ Moves to Internationalize Theory of “Unification through Absorption” Blasted

A spokesman for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 6 issued the following statement:
The south Korean authorities have recently taken an ill-boding move to peddle the theory of “unification through absorption” in the international arena.
“Unifying the systems” in the reality of the Korean peninsula precisely means “unification through absorption”.
It is well known that the present authorities of south Korea adopted “unification through absorption” as a state policy from the outset and have persistently pursued it.
They advocated “no nuke, opening and 3 000 dollars” right after they took office, called for instituting “unification tax” last year and advanced a proposal for “three-phase unification.” All this was a policy for confrontation based on “unification through absorption”.
They invited the ambassadors of neighbouring countries to a debate on unification in Seoul recently and staged a farce of advertising the above-said theory.
Nonsensical and dangerous is the theory of “unification through absorption” touted by the present rulers of south Korea.
The US and Japan lost as many as 20 years due to repeated failures in their DPRK policy under the miscalculation that the DPRK would collapse just as the Eastern European countries did. It is a stark reality that they compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons in the end.
Under the situation where there is deep-rooted distrust between the north and the south and huge armed forces are standing in confrontation with each other, any attempt on the part of a side to swallow up the other side would inevitably spark a war.
The neighbouring countries are required to ponder over what consequences would bring to the Korean peninsula by their behaviour following in with the above-said theory.
If they are truly interested in the reunification of the Korean peninsula, they should pay attention to the proposal for achieving reunification by the federal formula already solemnly clarified by the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration at home and abroad.
The said proposal of the DPRK is the best one for peaceful reunification which guarantees feasibility and helps avert war, because it presupposes the co-existence of the present systems in the north and the south.
It is also a reasonable proposal which concurs with the interests of the neighbouring countries, because it presupposes the neutrality of a unified state.
A sinister aim is lurking behind the south Korean authorities’ moves to internationalize the above-said theory in a bid to make the debate on it heated.
The “waiting strategy” pursued by them in inter-Korean relations is now going bankrupt.
The international community is now aware that the tense situation on the peninsula reached the brink of war last year entirely because of the south Korean authorities’ confrontation policy. It is now, therefore, becoming increasingly assertive for resuming the inter-Korean dialogue to defuse the climate of confrontation.
Much upset by this, they are going busy to step up the debate on “unification” in a bid to create an impression that “contingency” is imminent in the DPRK and “unification under liberal democracy” led by them is drawing near.
Pressurized by the public at home and abroad to resume dialogue and negotiations, they are giving lip-service to “open-hearted” dialogue but, in actuality, making it impossible for dialogue to open by craftily raising unreasonable preconditions unacceptable to the DPRK.
It is a base scenario for them to justify their “waiting strategy” and bar their allies from coming out for dialogue with the DPRK or feeling any need to give humanitarian aid to it.
Those who study the reunification issue at home and abroad would be well advised to pay due attention to the truth about such debate on “unification” taking place in south Korea these days.