The statement recalled that traitor Lee hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, not content with creating a touch-and-go situation on the Korean Peninsula in collusion with the U.S. imperialists at a time when all the Korean people and overseas compatriots are still grieving over the loss of the great sun of the nation.

Such hideous provocation perpetrated by the south Korean traitors and military warmongers brought into bolder relief again their true colors as human scum standing against the nation and reunification, it said, adding:

To hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK amounts to slandering and insulting all the Korean people and progressives of the world.

We will never pardon traitor Lee and military warmongers for bringing the dark clouds of war to hang over the Korean peninsula and hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

We will strive to build a reunified, independent and peaceful country, rallied close around the dear respected Kim Jong Un in one mind.

Ho Yong Ho, secretary general of the Central Standing Management Board of the Korean Youth Commercial Association in Japan, released a statement on the same day in support of the statement of the spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army.

On March 6, chairmen of the Tokyo Metropolitan and Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Fukuoka, Kanagawa, Ibaragi, Aichi and Hiroshima prefectural headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan in their statements accused the Lee group of hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.