The statement said that shortly ago, people who infiltrated the DPRK to blow up a statue and grand monument in it at the instructions of the U.S. and the south Korean intelligence agency were detected and arrested.

This clearly shows that the sabotage acts against the DPRK has reached the most frantic stage, it said.

The south Korean puppet regime is keen on the move to lure and abduct residents of the DPRK in collusion with the U.S. in order to use them for the smear campaign against the DPRK, it noted. They even infiltrate vicious defectors to south Korea and traitors into the DPRK to have the sabotage acts executed, it added.

The recently-unmasked criminal plot is part of the most hideous provocations to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK as well as an extremely frantic confrontation racket, it said, adding:

We, the association and Korean businessmen in China, will wage unflinching struggle to wipe out the group of rat-like Lee going reckless to exterminate all the compatriots in the DPRK with the backing of foreign forces.