Press Statement of Department Director General of DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, July 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Song Il, department director general of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, released the following press statement on July 1:

According to south Korean media, the side of the chairperson of the Hyundai Group submitted to the puppet authorities a plan to visit the area of the DPRK side as regards the issue of Mt. Kumgang tourist area.

We make it clear that we have neither been informed about any south Korean personage's willingness for visit nor known about it and that we have no intention to examine it.

It is the policy of the DPRK government that entry by any personage of south Korea into its territory can not be allowed.

The Mt. Kumgang tourist area is a part of the DPRK's territory and, accordingly, the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee can not exercise any authority over the issue of entry into the DPRK.

Such principle and policy are unchangeable and will be maintained in the future, too. -0-

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