Kim Hung Ju, 61, a department director in the State Resources Development Guidance Bureau, said in an interview with KCNA that as soon as the incident occurred, the U.S. imperialists asserted the DPRK was involved in it, instigating the south Korean puppets to acts hostile towards the DPRK.

The United States voiced support to the "investigation results" on the incident announced by the south Korean authorities and a "statement to the people" made public by Lee, he said, and went on:

The fact reveals the U.S. intention to further intensify the anti-DPRK campaign with the help of its stooges and put the whole of Korea under its control.

With no amount of trick and military threat can the United States discourage the Korean people.

Kim Kwang Chol, 50, a chief furnaceman of the Chollima Steel Complex, told KCNA that the United States has backed the south Korean traitors in their fabrication concerning the incident, driving the situation to the brink of war.

The United States has ordered its forces in south Korea to take a combat posture for another possible war in Korea and stepped up arms buildup and military domination over south Korea, he said, continued:

With a touch-and-go situation prevailing in the Korean peninsula, the Korean army and people will respond to the enemy's "retaliation" with a stronger retaliation and to their "punishment" with indiscriminate punishment of their own style in order to defend the dignity of the nation and sovereignty of the country.

Jong Chol Min, 26, a student of Hamhung University of Chemical Engineering, told KCNA that Japan has persistently pursued the anti-DPRK policy in league with the south Korean regime, manipulated by the United States. The Japanese militarists will surely be punished by the Korean people for their reckless acts, he added.