The statement said:

The conservative media of south Korea including KBS, MBN and Yonhap News branded the 8th Congress of the Korean Children's Union as a "demonstration event for maintaining social system" and even hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

The public broadcasting service KBS put forward experts and "defectors from the north" to talk about "the children on the market" and "limitations of instilling ideology", giving impression that there are some changes in the idea of the youths and children of the DPRK.

This clearly shows that confrontation hysteria of the conservative group and hack writers of south Korea, seeking to make even children scapegoats for its plot-breeding against the DPRK, has gone beyond the red line.

We have already clearly warned that the puppet conservative media and journalists will be made to pay a dear price for their distortion of reality and propaganda against the DPRK, the statement said, clarifying:

Firm and steadfast is our stand to inflict merciless punishment on those who hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK wherever they might be on the earth.

The puppet conservative media and the reptile writers who slandered the WPK's noble politics of loving the rising generations and the future, and those who organized and instigated such smear campaign will be made to suffer constant horror and uneasiness from this moment.

If the south Korean authorities are truly interested in improving the north-south relations, they should make an immediate investigation into the conservative media's hideous provocation against the DPRK and punish those responsible.

If this demand is turned down, we will regard the recent case as an act masterminded by the south Korean authorities and will force them to pay dearly for it.

Those who challenged the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership can never go scot-free.