The grave situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula owing to the sinking of warship "Cheonan" of the south Korean puppet navy, the statement said, and went on:

The south Korean authorities announced the "results of investigation" cooked up by them which assert that the warship was sunken by torpedo attack by the DPRK. And they are now crying out for "punishment" and "retaliation" against the DPRK and foolishly seeking even to prod the international community into applying additional "sanctions" against it.

We bitterly denounce the south Korean puppet forces for their trite trick whereby they fake up a shocking case and use it for building public opinion about "north wind" whenever they find themselves in a crisis. We also vehemently condemn the U.S. and Japanese aggressors for working hard to keep the hostile policy toward the DPRK on its orbit while chiming in with their south Korean stooges.

We fully support the statement issued by a spokesman for the DPRK National Defence Commission and strongly urge the south Korean authorities to sincerely accept it and make efforts for peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

The French Group for the Study of the Juche and Songun Idea, too, issued a statement on May 20 denouncing the south Korean puppet group's "results of investigation" into the case of sinking of "Cheonan".