The joint statement said that the first installment of the NDC inspection group's statement evidently proves in a scientific way that the DPRK had nothing to do with the case of the south Korean warship sinking and the assertion of the south Korean puppet authorities is foolish and ridiculous.

All the facts suggest that the above-said case was a stupid and immature farce orchestrated by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet bellicose forces, it said.

It charged that venal imperialist media are unhesitatingly making false propaganda though the "results of investigation" into the "Cheonan" case lack creditability.

The joint statement condemned the West's media for ballyhooing in a bid to tarnish the image of dignified Juche Korea and stifle its socialist system.

It demanded that the U.S. imperialists, the south Korean puppet authorities and the West's media halt their anti-DPRK propaganda at once.