The south Korean authorities refused to send back residents of the DPRK, contrary to international practice and hardly understandable in the light of humanitarian issue, it noted.

The operation conducted by the south Korean puppet group to force the residents of the DPRK to "defect to the south" is an inhuman act contrary to ethics and the sense of obligation, it said.

The south Korean authorities, colonial slaves of the U.S., are conspiring with it in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the article charged.

It demanded the south Korean authorities immediately repatriate the three residents of the DPRK.