Ri Song Il, a researcher of the International Affairs Institute, told KCNA:

The authorities of south Korea have frequently called for "confidence" and "improved relations" while talking about "humanitarianism", as if they are interested in national reunification.

But, they revealed, through the recent case of capturing our peaceable fishing boat, their true colors as separatists and traitors who pursue only a policy of confrontation, not national reconciliation and unity, and who are occupied by extreme hostility toward the DPRK.

We will never pardon the anti-national, anti-reunification and inhuman act of the south Korean puppet gangsters who abandoned their nationality.

Kim Song Chol, an officer of the Korean People's Army, said:

It is the unanimous will of our servicepersons to shower flames of merciless punishment upon the south Korean military gangsters at once to wipe out them to the last one.

The armed forces of the DPRK have already given enough advice and warning to the south Korean puppet warmongers. Now is the time to punish those disgusting gangsters with decisive actions. Then, it will be late for them to regret for their deeds.

Pak Il Hwan, a Pyongyang citizen, said:

I can hardly repress my wrath at the south Korean military gangsters' hair-raising atrocities against our sailors.

It is an open challenge to the DPRK as well as to all the fellow countrymen desirous of improved north-south relations.

The south Korean authorities should apologize to the nation for the military's rude gangsterism and punish the provokers to prevent the recurrence of such case.