The head of the delegation of the DPRK side to the Senior Colonel-level talks of the DPRK and U.S. militaries lodged a protest with the U.S. forces side against shielding this move of the south Korean authorities.

The head of the delegation of the DPRK side in his protest notice sent to the side of the U.S. forces present in south Korea Sunday assailed it for sending the DPRK side a notice shielding the south Korean authorities' inhumanitarian act after faking up "the results of the special investigation conducted by the UN Command."

If the U.S. truly sets store by humanitarianism and wants to see the north-south relations improved, it should play its due role to make the south Korean authorities immediately send back all the inhabitants of the DPRK to it, he stressed.