Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement "We will be more resolute and clear in exercising our sovereignty toward the most hostile state" on Tuesday:
New danger of war is prevailing along the southern border of the DPRK, bounded by the state most hostile toward it.
The ROK made public the "final investigation results", in which it forcibly linked with us the "mine explosion case" that occurred in a border area, and called for "responsive diplomatic and military steps" to be taken against our state with a "mine-removing operation" as the start.
As we already stated, the ROK fully betrayed and proved itself what the ulterior purpose of the farce plotted and orchestrated by Seoul is.
The "mine-explosion case" is a sinister obstructive move intended to brand our fortification of the southern border, downright exercise of the sovereignty, as a "military invasion" and delay and check it, and this is no more than a poor trick of the ROK military to shift the blame for its own accident onto us.
The ROK seeks to hold the DPRK accountable for the premeditated farce, fabricated and determined unilaterally by it, and tarnish the latter's international image. It is a grave provocation never to be overlooked and a wanton violation of our sovereignty that deserves sure punishment.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK categorically rejects the despicable attempt of the ROK and solemnly clarifies that our state will exercise its just sovereign rights in a more resolute and bold manner to ensure the security of the southern border.
We do not care about them trying to remove the mines irrelevant to us, and we have no reason to pay heed to such farce of the ROK.
However, if a jackboot or a spark of fire from the ROK goes even a millimeter beyond the border to violate our territory, the border guard forces of the DPRK will take immediate and powerful counteraction.
We make it clear that if a similar thing happens again in the ROK in the future, we are not responsible for it but the side, which sustained it, is entirely accountable.
As already clarified, the DPRK will never discuss with the enemy countries the issue of exercising its military sovereignty within its territory but defend its territorial sovereignty by thoroughly exercising its power, not by negotiations.
We take this opportunity to reaffirm that it is the official stand of the DPRK government.
The malicious attempt of the ROK to attain its sinister purpose through a mean farce can never work in any case.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will be most resolute and definite in exercising its sovereignty toward the relation with the most hostile state, in which any slightest tolerance, concession and connivance are disallowed. -0-




