The statement noted that Korea's reunification is nowadays facing a grave challenge due to the moves of the Lee group escalating inter-Korean confrontation under the pretext of the case of the warship "Cheonan's" sinking.

The committee strongly denounces the moves of the Lee group against reunification, it said, demanding it stop at once the vicious anti-DPRK campaign.

It stressed that the committee fully supports the stand of the DPRK as regards the case and extends firm solidarity to the just cause of the Korean people for the reunification of the country and the building of a great prosperous and powerful nation.

The People Unity-"Kyrgys El" Republican Political Party of Kyrgyzstan issued a statement on May 31 in which it demanded the U.S. immediately get its hands off the DPRK.

On May 27, the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru also issued a statement strongly assailing the U.S. and the south Korean authorities for their shameless moves of threatening global peace and fanning up a war atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula.

Alejandro Cao de Benos, chairman of the Korean Friendship Association headquartered in Spain, also issued a statement on the same day denouncing the smear campaign of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors against the DPRK.