S. Korea, U.S. behind Rim Hyon Su's Activities against DPRK:Spokesman for Policy Department of NDC of DPRK

Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet forces have kicked off another anti-DPRK racket by floating misinformation that Rim Hyon Su made a false confession under "duress and pressure" after being arrested in the DPRK for his subversive plots and activities against it.
    A spokesman for the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA on Tuesday in this regard:
    The day after a press conference was held with Rim, a spokesman for the puppet Ministry of Unification of south Korea claimed that the DPRK "illegally detained" Rim and "forced him to make a confession."
    The south Korean puppet authorities prodded the conservative media into spreading misinformation that the DPRK sought to "tighten the control over inhabitants and strengthen the social system" by "hyping up the threats" from outside. They went the lengths of asserting that the DPRK is resorting to "hostage diplomacy" as a tactical measure to take the initiative at the negotiations under the situation where the DPRK is playing a tug of war in the relations with south Korea and the U.S.
    These remarks are nothing but sophism of those who have guilty conscience.
    The south Korean puppet authorities and the U.S. have always been behind those forces engaged in extreme hostile acts against the DPRK in all realms of politics, economy and military.
    Rim acted an anti-communist maniac and a member of a shock force for the confrontation with the fellow countrymen in the north at the risk of his life under the mask of religion as he was under the dark tentacles of the south Korean puppet authorities and the U.S.
    He perpetrated such high treason as hurling mud at the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its social system, hatching a plot to bring down the state, creating distrust and bitterness toward the DPRK through sheer lies and fabrications, frauds, deception and speculations and conducting crafty operations to lure and abduct citizens of the DPRK, pursuant to the scenarios of south Korean puppet authorities and the U.S. for confrontation with the DPRK.
    The south Korean puppet authorities will not dare deny these facts.
    Those guilty deserve punishment.
    It was not "unreasonable" but quite natural that the wicked elements were detected and arrested as they tried to destabilize and overthrow the DPRK. They admitted and confessed to their crimes, though belatedly. They did not do so under "duress."
    The puppet forces are impudently falsifying this stark reality, a proof that they are diehard criminals steeped in plots and fabrications to the marrow of their bones.
    The above-said sophism would only add to their crimes. -0