If clouds often hang, it is bound to rain, the statement said, adding that no sooner had the present south Korean authorities come to power than bedeviled the inter-Korean relations which had favorably developed and openly put a brake on the wheel of the inter-Korean contact and relations of cooperation.

In a word, the recent provocation was a product of the anti-DPRK and anti-reunification confrontation policy of the south Korean authorities, it noted.

The Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China said in a statement issued on Nov. 26 that it was quite natural that the Korean People's Army standing guard over the inviolable territorial waters of the country took such resolute military step as reacting to the south Korean puppet group's military provocation with a prompt and powerful physical strike. The statement went on:

Nevertheless, the puppet group is seeking to stage the largest-ever combined exercises by introducing latest war hardware including the U.S. nuclear carrier George Washington into the West Sea of Korea while crying out for "punishment" and "retaliation" against someone just like a thief crying "Stop thief!"

The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors should bear in mind the warnings of the DPRK and stop its rash actions.

Meanwhile, the Yanbian District Association of the General Association of Koreans in China and the Yanbian District Youth Committee of the Association of Young Koreans in China issued a joint statement on the same day denouncing the south Korean puppet group for its reckless military provocation.