The DPRK's successful satellite launch in the wake of its successful H-bomb test is a great deed recorded in the national history, the statement said.

But the south Korean authorities are taking issue with the DPRK's exercise of the right to use space for peaceful purposes, not content with resorting to pro-Japanese acts which put the five traitors of 1905 into the shade while glossing over the issue of sexual slavery in collusion with Japan, the sworn enemy of the Korean nation, it charged.

It terms this a treacherous act of chilling the national pride of all the Koreans in the north, the south and abroad who are sincerely rejoiced over the DPRK's successful satellite launch.