The statement disclosed that the Yonphyong Island shelling case was orchestrated by the south Korean authorities in a bid to preserve the illegal "northern limit line".

This was also prompted by the ulterior aim of the U.S. to stifle Korean-style socialism and hold its military hegemony in Northeast Asia, it said, and went on:

The DPRK proposed to open the north-south high-level military talks despite the provocations by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group.

But the south Korean puppet group deliberately brought the preliminary talks for opening the north-south high-level military talks to collapse through plots and trickery.

The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group revealed their true colors as anti-DPRK confrontation maniacs.

We friends of the DPRK in Britain and adherents to the Juche idea and the Songun idea express full support for the measures for self-defence taken by the DPRK to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country.

We are sure that the Korean People's Army, the revolutionary armed forces, will decisively frustrate all conspiratorial moves of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group to disturb peace under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, supreme commander of the KPA.