“If they fail to take appropriate steps against the malicious invective that has been hurled against the fellow countrymen from the south, the south Korean authorities will have to get themselves fully ready for such possibilities as the complete removal of the already desolate Kaesong Industrial Park following the termination of the tour of Mt Kumgang, the shutdown of the north-south joint liaison office whose existence only adds to trouble or the scrapping of the north-south agreement in the military field which is hardly of any value,” said Kim Yo Jong, first deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, on Thursday.

The statement came after the "defectors from the north" scattered hundreds of thousands of anti-DPRK leaflets offending its supreme dignity and finding fault with the “nuclear issue” towards the northern areas on the front line on May 31.

She said she would like to ask the south Korean authorities if they were ready to deal with the aftermath of the deeds of the rabble of defectors who took no scruple to slander the DPRK while finding fault with the "nuclear issue" in the meanest way and at the most inopportune time.

“I detest those who feign ignorance of or encourage evil deeds more than those who commit them,” she said, adding the south Korean authorities would be unable to say they do not know the provisions of the Panmunjom Declaration and the agreement in the military field in which both sides agreed to ban all hostile acts including leaflet-scattering in the areas along the Military Demarcation Line.

Asserting there should be a modicum of discretion, however deep north-south hostile relations are and however pent-up enmity toward the fellow countrymen is, she said it was hard to understand how such base and sordid act of hostility is tolerated in the south at the time as now.

If such malicious act, which is committed without hesitation in the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, is left unchecked on the pretext of "freedom of individuals" and "freedom of expression", the south Korean authorities will have to face the worst situation before long, she warned.

If they truly value inter-Korean agreements and have the will to thoroughly implement them, they should clear their house of rubbish before absurdly talking about “proper response”, she noted, urging them to make at least a law for prohibiting the farce of human scum and take thoroughgoing preventive measures against any nasty action.

“Good faith and hostility can never go together and reconciliation and confrontation are incompatible,” she pointed out.

“Given they must have seen time and again such instances of expectations turning into despair and hope ending in nothing, they had better do what they have to do if they do not want to face the worst situation.”