The group committed a thrice-cursed crime of holding an anti-DPRK rally in downtown Seoul and dared burn portraits of the great men symbolic of the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, not content with viciously slandering the celebrations held in the DPRK to mark the Day of the Sun (April 15), President Kim Il Sung's birthday.

It is an ill-intentioned provocation aimed to lead the tense situation created on the Korean Peninsula to an outbreak of nuclear war at all costs.

Seized with surging rage at the moves to do harm to the mainstay of their faith, the DPRK people are now filled with determination to reduce Seoul into the sea of flames.

Ri Yong Chol, an officer of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces (KPISF), told KCNA:

It is a politically-motivated move to dare insult the dignity of the peerlessly great men, which have been kept dearly in the hearts of the servicepersons and people of the DPRK.

It can be done only by the traitors to the nation.

We can never leave them alive.

The crime was committed at the instigation and connivance of the south Korean puppet regime.

Historically, the puppet authorities have harshly suppressed the righteous struggle of progressive organizations, while standing for the anti-DPRK rackets waged by ultra-rightist conservative organizations.

We, servicepersons, will wipe out all of them to the last man.

Jo Nam Hyok, a non-commissioned officer of the KPISF, said:

The group of traitors has committed politically-motivated provocation even under the situation similar to wartime.

Once the Supreme Commander gives us an order of action, we will blow up Seoul, the hotbed of crimes, and the dens of gangsters.