Ri Chang Sop, a general officer of the Korean People's Army, told KCNA:

"Their terrorist attempt is a downright challenge to the dignity of our supreme leadership and it is the height of anti-DPRK confrontation moves which can never be tolerated.

South Korea's rat-like Lee Myung Bak group is a clan of outlaws inferior to a beast as it is ignorant of elementary ethics and morality. Its existence is the greatest shame to the Korean nation.

The group of rabid dogs should be beaten to death in time. We, servicepersons, will blow up the bastions of the U.S. imperialists and the Lee group of traitors if they show any sign of attempting to defame the dignity of our supreme leadership.

Im Hun, secretary general of the North Hwanghae Provincial People's Committee, said:

"The U.S. and the Lee group of traitors are master-hands of anti-DPRK scheme and kingpins of state-sponsored political terrorism. But it is ridiculous for them to scheme to break the single-minded unity of the DPRK people which is more powerful than A-bomb. The U.S. and the Lee group will have to pay dearly for their indelible crime against the Korean nation."

Jo Yong Bong, rector of Law College under Kim Il Sung University, said:

"All teachers and students of the university are enraged at the news that the enemy attempted to insult the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership.

The DPRK will surely settle accounts with their crime and force them to pay thousand-fold price for it. Prescription is unavailable for such hideous terrorism."