The statement accused them of sparking off the Yonphyong Island military clash, thus driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of an all-out war in the wake of staging the military maneuvers targeted against the DPRK after cooking up the warship "Cheonan" case.

The shelling exercises launched by the south Korean puppet forces in the East, West and South seas of south Korea simultaneously, escalating the military threat and tension, bring to light their sinister scenario to provoke a war, the statement said, and went on:

The state of armistice is persisting on the Korean Peninsula and danger of war is not defused there because of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its wild ambition for aggression.

The committee demanded the U.S. and south Korea stop all the military exercises threatening peace on the peninsula and urged the U.S. to roll back its hostile policy toward the DPRK.