Report on 9th Enlarged Plenum of 8th WPK Central Committee

Pyongyang, December 31 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the great guide of our country\and people, has defended the eternal vitality of socialism, the ideal\and future of mankind,\and vigorously led its steady development, while confirming the validity of the sacred mission\and idea specified in its programme through the indomitable struggle\and precious victories.

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Whatever the enemies attempt\and whatever they choose, it is our unshakable principle\and mode of struggle against the enemy to control by super-tough counteraction beyond it\and by the exercise of powerful ability overwhelming it.

The conclusion put forward the line of making a fundamental turnabout in the sector of work toward the south on the basis of a cool analysis of the bitter history of the north-south relations which has repeatedly suffered only distrust\and confrontation.

The Korean Peninsula is now constantly in the grip of an uncontrollable crisis due to the reckless anti-DPRK confrontation hysteria\and military provocations of the U.S.\and south Korean puppets.

It is a well known fact that physical clash can be caused\and escalated even by a slight accidental factor in the area of along the Military Demarcation Line\where large armed forces of both sides are standing in confrontation with one another,\and no one can deny the fact that the two states, the most hostile toward each other, are coexisting in the Korean peninsula at present.

Such abnormal situation is not a random phenomenon like mutation in the light of the successive puppet regimes' extension of their policies but an inevitable result of the history of the north-south relations.

For a long period spanning not just ten years but more than half a century, the idea, line\and policies for national reunification laid down by our Party\and the DPRK government have always roused absolute support\and approval of the whole nation\and sympathy of the world as they are most just, reasonable\and fair. But none of them has brought about a proper fruition\and the north-south relations have repeated the vicious cycle of contact\and suspension, dialogue\and confrontation.

If there is a common point among the "policies toward the north"\and "unification policies" pursued by the successive south Korean rulers, it is the "collapse of the DPRK's regime"\and "unification by absorption".\and it is clearly proved by the fact that the keynote of "unification under liberal democracy" has been invariably carried forward although the puppet regime has changed more than ten times so far.

The puppet forces' sinister ambition to destroy our social system\and regime has remained unchanged even a bit whether they advocated "democracy"\or disguised themselves as "conservatism", the General Secretary said,\and went on:

The general conclusion drawn by our Party, looking back upon the long-standing north-south relations is that reunification can never be achieved with the ROK authorities that defined the "unification by absorption"\and "unification under liberal democracy" as their state policy, which is in sharp contradiction with our line of national reunification based on one nation\and one state with two systems.

Even at this moment, the south Korean puppets are unhesitatingly contending that the DPRK\and its people are territory\and population of the ROK that should be reclaimed,\and it is shamelessly specified in the constitution of the ROK that "the territory of the ROK contains the Korean peninsula\and its attached islands".

The reality urgently requires us to adopt a new stand on the north-south relations\and the reunification policy.

Now we need to admit the reality\and make the relations with the south Korean puppets clearer.

I think it is a mistake we should no longer make to regard the clan, who publicly defined us as the "principal enemy"\and is seeking only the opportunity of "collapse of power"\and "unification by absorption" in collusion with foreign forces, as the partner of reconciliation\and reunification.

It is not suitable to the prestige\and position of the DPRK to discuss the issue of reunification with the strange clan, who is no more than a colonial stooge of the U.S., just because of the rhetorical word the fellow countrymen.

South Korea at present is nothing but a hemiplegic malformation\and colonial subordinate state whose politics is completely out of\order, whole society tainted by Yankee culture,\and defence\and security totally dependent on the U.S.

The north-south relations have been completely fixed into the relations between two states hostile to each other\and the relations between two belligerent states, not the consanguineous\or homogeneous ones any more.

It can be said this is the present situation that shows the relations between the north\and the south today.

The conclusion, lucidly looking into\and recognizing the reality, stressed the need to take measures for readjusting\and reforming the\organizations in charge of the affairs related to the south including the United Front Department of the Party Central Committee\and to fundamentally change the principle\and\orientation of the struggle.

Solemnly declaring that if the U.S.\and south Korean puppets stubbornly attempt a military confrontation with the DPRK, the latter's nuclear war deterrence will go over to a grave action without hesitation, the conclusion set forth the important tasks for the fields in charge of the affairs with enemies\and foreign countries to make preparations in a foresighted way for keeping pace with the powerful military actions of the Korean People's Army to subjugate the whole territory of the south on the basis of making it a fait accompli that a war may break out on the Korean peninsula any time due to the enemies' reckless moves for invading the DPRK.

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