Standing in the van of committing the hideous crime were human dregs affiliated with the "alliance of the elders" and the "society of families of south Korean abductees" in south Korea.

This provocation has given special edge to the anger of the DPRK.

Choe Yun Myong, a workshop head at the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex, told KCNA:

"The Lee group of traitors is getting evermore pronounced in its anti-DPRK campaign.

Now is the time to annihilate the group of rats engaged only in committing indelible crimes against the will and desire of all the fellow countrymen.

Rat-like Lee and his lackeys will soon face a severe punishment by the angry DPRK servicepersons and civilians, who regard it as their life and soul to defend the leadership of the revolution."

Ryang Chun Sik, a worker at the Tongdaewon Unha Garment Factory, said:

"Traitor Lee blustered that 'if the north provokes in the future, the south would take several times stronger retaliation' and 'the second Yonphyong Island shelling incident was a premeditated provocation of the north.'

His bellicose remarks are a token of his desperate effort to avoid the blame for having totally spoiled the north-south relations.

Lee is now more dead than alive. He had better commit suicide if he does not want to meet harsh retaliation by the DPRK people.

Those who insulted the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership are doomed to capital punishment."