Kim Jong Su, 48, a work-team leader of the Pyongyang Steel Factory, told KCNA that the architect of the incident, an unheard-of farce, is none other than the south Korean regime.

The whole course of the incident and such things as "investigation results" and Lee's "statement to the people" reveal their true colors as conspirators, he said, and continued:

They sacrificed even lives of puppet army privates for their anti-DPRK smear campaign.

The achievements made by the entire Korean people over the past decade in the spirit of "by our nation itself" after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration have all been neutralized, even joint pro-reunification events of the nation blocked up and the danger of war enlarged on the peninsula.

The regime, which is seeking confrontation with the north and a nuclear war on the peninsula with the backing of outside forces, deserves a vehement condemnation from the entire Korean nation.

Yu Pok Sun, 42, a peasant of the Migok Co-op Farm in Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province, told KCNA that the south Korean regime has persistently pursued the policy of confrontation with the north, wrecking the historic June 15 joint declaration and the program for its implementation, that is October 4 declaration, and leading the north-south relations to the state of war.

The south Korean regime will know how dearly it has to pay for their crimes, she added.

Ri Kyong Il, 20, a student of Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, said in an interview with KCNA that the regime faked up the incident with the approach of "elections to local self-governing bodies" in an attempt to stave off its crisis and that those seeking a war and confrontation, estranged from the nation, are bound to face a miserable end.