Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement titled "ROK military will find it hard to evade its responsibility as the main culprit or accomplice in the grave infringement on DPRK sovereignty" on October 12:

The most childish Republic of Korea which is utterly ignorant is resorting to a stereotyped method to suit the nature with which it was born in order to evade the responsibility for the recent drone intrusion case.

As soon as the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a crucial statement, military gangsters of the ROK were busy trying to evade the responsibility while making a shameless and childish excuse, saying that they did not do it and have not yet grasped the situation and the military did not send drones to the north and should confirm whether non-governmental organizations sent drones.

It is a miscalculation if the military thinks that it can easily pass the crucial infringement upon the sovereignty of our state, even though the military impudently asserts that they did not do it, and can avoid the apprehensive eyes of the international community.

It would be evidently problematic if the military could not identify the drones flown by a non-governmental organization, although they crossed the border without a permit.

The ROK military has always hyped its "watertight detection and tracking ability."

Has the military, which was sensitive enough to mistake a flock of flying birds for “drones from the north”, become blind suddenly?

As it has asserted that even the fact that the drones from its region crossed the border several times should be confirmed, I wonder what the ROK people would call the military.

Even the leaflet-scattering over the capital city of the other country will be regarded as a grave politically-motivated provocation and an infringement upon sovereignty, but the fact that the means which carried the leaflets is the very drones is the core of the seriousness of the recent incident.

If the military has connived at the fact that its people committed an act of openly infringing upon other's sovereignty by use of drones, recognized by the world as an undeniable military multi-purpose means, and at the fact that such infringement means that can be considered to be provocative crossed the border of the other belligerent country and can cause an incident fostering the danger of arms conflict, it is a deliberate connivance and collusion and only provides clear proof that the linchpin in the drone infiltration case is none other than the military gangsters.

Even though they boasted that they are the "strong ROK army", talking about "together with the people" on the "ROK army day" some days ago, they are using the people as a shield without hesitation at a blind alley. Their sordid wordplay only reveals the meanness and baseness of the military of the ROK.

Their assertion is as good as the claim that even if our non-governmental organizations, not the army, scatter political agitation leaflets in the sky over the presidential office in Seoul with drones, it would be no problem.

I'd liked to watch how the government of the ROK and, in particular, the military gangsters will respond if such an event really happens.

In conclusion, the ROK military directly committed the drone infiltration case or the provocation of infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK was committed under its positive fostering and connivance.

In actuality, the minister of National Defense of the ROK, when his petty excuse aimed at shifting the blame to the non-governmental organization did not work, expressed his ambiguous attitude, saying that “it is impossible to confirm it strategically and from the point of view of national security and operations security.”

Such attitude of neither denying nor admitting the case is a revelation of its mental state that it will not admit the case as it is unable to deny it and proves that the military admitted by itself that it is the chief criminal or accomplice of the current incident.

It is little short of an open declaration that even though a provocation of infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK that “cannot be confirmed” is repeated or it leads to the outbreak of war, they have no responsibility for it.

As we have already foreseen and the world has witnessed at all times, this time, too, the ROK is trying hard to distort the truth and deceive the world people with the groundless assertion it invented with its habitual excuse and deformed thinking.

Revealed before the world once again are the snobbish nature and astonishing real picture of the dangerous clan intent on gambling with the lives of the people.

We state explicitly that it is the ROK scum that conducted a rubbish balloon campaign with provocative nature for the first time and it is also the ROK gangsters that have steadily aggravated the situation, far from abandoning their dirty bad habit despite our warning.

The ROK is claiming that we had flown "dirty balloons" 28 times so far just like a guilty party filing the suit first, but it is well advised to make public first how many times the organizations of defectors from the DPRK did such acts.

All our acts are inevitable measures taken strictly on the principle of counteraction.

No matter how desperately the ROK may try to mislead the public as if our counteraction has been taken without reason, it will not come up to its intention.

We are not interested in the least in who is behind the recent drone incident and who committed the provocation.

We only look squarely at the fact that they are just the shameless ROK clans, irrespective of whether they are the military gangsters or an organization of human scum who defected from the DPRK.

As we repeat our clear stand, in case drones carrying anti-DPRK political agitation rubbish infiltrate again into the airspace of the DPRK across the border from the ROK, we will take a strong retaliatory action in disregard of their ingredients.

This is the exercise of the sovereign state's right to self-defence that is beyond any consideration.

Those, who fail to take any proper stand to check escalation of tension and armed conflict but make a bluff and lame excuse with reckless courage, even though they made Seoul Municipality and the whole of the ROK a target and put their people on the kitchen board, will certainly hear only the people's voices of criticism.

They are well advised to worry about the immediate price for repeated provocation and cope with that.

Even though the ROK military is racking its brain to evade the responsibility for their infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK with incoherent impudence and senseless sophism, they will certainly pay a dear price in any way for violently infringing upon the inviolable sovereignty of our state and doing a serious harm to its security.

I hope that the people will judge whether the strong and brave recklessness and bold attitude of the ROK military, which jumps from the frying pan into the fire, could defend the genuine safety of the ROK.

As I reaffirm once again, as clarified by the DPRK Foreign Ministry, our attack time for destroying Seoul and the military force of the ROK has not been defined in our military action plan at present.

That time is not set by us.

However, the moment that a drone of the ROK is discovered in the sky over our capital city once again, a horrible disaster will certainly befall the ROK.

I, for one, wish that such thing will not happen.