The statement recalled that the National Defence Commission of the DPRK in a statement on Mar. 14 solemnly clarified at home and abroad the principled stand of the DPRK on the U.S. hostile policy toward it.

The statement went on:

The U.S. let loose a spate of sheer sophism, terming the DPRK's regular rocket launching drills a "provocation" and "violation of resolutions." It ran the whole gamut of invectives against the DPRK and made no scruple of making such provocation as groundlessly slandering even the election of deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly.

It is none other than the U.S. which has dared to encroach upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, while taking issue with whatever it has done for decades. It is again the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people, which has behaved so meanly to undermine the ideology and bring down the social system of the DPRK.

We express irrepressible hatred and resentment at the U.S. bringing the situation to a grave phase and fully support and approve the principled stand of the NDC of the DPRK.

If the U.S. persists in its arrogant and anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, defying the grave situation, it will not be able to escape the merciless punishment by the angry people of the DPRK in the long run.