Saying that the disgusting scum slandered the dignity of our supreme leadership just like our hearts and the large socialist family, cradle of our lives, emboldened by the south Korean authorities' weakness and with their connivance, the article stressed that this can never be pardoned as it is the most vicious challenge and the declaration of a war against us.

It goes on:

It is our strong disposition never to make even the slightest concession and compromise in a matter related with the dignity of our supreme leadership.

As an action of the first stage reflective of the will of all our service personnel and people, we took the measure of completely cutting off and shutting down several communication and liaison lines between the north and the south shortly ago. This was the first severe punishment to fools who failed in understanding the seriousness of the incident but still have lingering regret.

It is our firm stand that it is better to remove and break things which would finally be removed and broken.

Our offensive for blowing up a den of plots and eradicating the roots of evils will be intensively launched in succession.

It is the clear answer and final option of all our service personnel and people to completely remove the masterminds of the anti-DPRK leaflet-scattering, its sponsors and dumping places in which despicable plots are hatched.