The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued a statement on Friday in this regard:

This is not only an intolerable insult to the dignity of the DPRK's supreme leadership but a grave politically-motivated provocation aimed at plunging the inter-Korean relations into catastrophe.

What merits a serious attention is that this false propaganda is being openly conducted under the wire-pulling of the south Korean authorities behind the scene, the statement noted, and continued:

The misinformation spread by Yonhap News was provided by the Intelligence Service and the above-said institute that faked up the groundless paper on the basis of such lies is an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organ under the IS.

The false propaganda is timed to coincide with the working-level contact which is slated to take place for the talks between authorities of the north and the south. This self-exposes that the south Korean authorities have no idea of mending the inter-Korean relations through dialogue.

All facts clearly show that the south Korean authorities have the black-hearted intention to keep stand off with the north to the last though they try to give impression they are interested in dialogue.

Explicitly speaking, it is the steadfast stand and will of the DPRK that it is hard to settle any matter with those seeking to do harm to the dignity of its supreme leadership.