Ho Jong Gil, general officer of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, told KCNA:

"The United States is a kingpin of international terrorism. The U.S. imperialists will face merciless punishment by the Korean army and people for their encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignty and security.

The hideous terrorism, recently attempted at the direction of the U.S., is tantamount to anti-DPRK sabotage unprecedented in history.

It is the fixed will of our army and people to build a prosperous and powerful nation, holding their leaders in high esteem as the eternal sun. We condemn the U.S. imperialists' attempt to remove the mental mainstay of the Korean nation as a downright challenge to the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership and an unpardonable, political terrorism."

Ham Sin Ung, a KPISF officer, said:

"The recent case shows that the U.S. imperialists are employing every conceivable means to topple the socialist system of the DPRK. There will be no change in the U.S. intention to antagonize and stifle the ideology and social system of the DPRK.

We will devotedly safeguard the headquarters of the revolution with arms, sharply watching any sinister plot against the DPRK on the part of the U.S. imperialists."

Kang Jun Sik, an officer of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, said:

"It is the U.S. imperialists' typical method to gather outlaws and instigate them to create social unrest and then make it a pretext for military intervention and aggression on any country.

But such method can never work on the DPRK where all the people form a big harmonious family while always following their leader with deep trust in him.

Any anti-DPRK plot-breeding base, wherever it may be, will be blown up when the army and people of the DPRK give vent to their pent-up anger."