Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department

Director of WPK Central Committee

Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement titled
"ROK military will be hard to evade the blame for having orchestrated or joined in committing
such a grave infringement on DPRK sovereignty" on October 12:
The most childish and ignorant Republic of Korea is resorting to a stereotyped method
pertaining to its inborn nature to evade the blame 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 the fact that a non-governmental
organization might send drones.
It is a miscalculation if the ROK thought that they could go unpunished after committing such
grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our state, though the military impudently asserts
that they did not do it, and avoid the concern of the international community.
It would be evidently problematic if the military did not identify that drones by a non-
governmental organization crossed the border at random.
The ROK military has loudly advertised its "watertight detection and tracking ability".
The military would strain its nerves, mistaking a flying flock of birds for “drones from the
north”. Then, did it become blind all of sudden?
It has asserted that the fact about drones from its region, which had crossed the border
several times, should be confirmed. Accordingly, I wonder what the ROK people talk about
the military.
Leaflet-scattering over the capital city of the opponent country is regarded as a grave
politically-motivated provocation and an infringement upon sovereignty, but what is the basic
gravity of the recent case is the fact that drones are means which carried those leaflets.
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 can occur an incident fostering the danger of arms conflict, crossing the
border of an opponent country, it is a deliberate connivance and conspiracy and only
provides a clear proof that the leading figures in the drone infiltration case are 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.
As their assertion shows, it means that though our non-governmental organizations scatter
political agitation leaflets in the sky over the presidential office in Seoul with drones, it is not
problematic.
I'd like to watch how the government of the ROK and, in particular, the military gangsters will
respond to such real thing.
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.
Indeed, the minister of National Defense of the ROK, when his petty excuse of shifting the
blame to the non-governmental organization did not work on, expressed his uncertain
attitude, saying that “it is impossible to confirm it strategically in terms of national security
and strategic security.”
Such attitude of neither denying nor admitting the case proves that the military admitted by
itself that it is the chief criminal or accomplice of the current incident as a revelation of its
mental state that it can admit the case, unable to deny it.
It is little short of an open declaration that even though a provocation of infringing upon the
sovereignty of the DPRK that “can not 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 groundless assertion
made by it with its habitual excuse and deformed thinking.
Revealed before the world once again were the base nature and astonishing real picture of
dangerous those to gamble with the lives of the people.
Clear is that ROK scum conducted a rubbish balloon campaign with provocative nature for
the first time and those of the ROK have steadily aggravated the situation, far from
abandoning their dirty bad habit despite our warning.
The ROK is crying that we had flied "dirty balloons" 28 times just like a guilty party filing the
suit first but it is well advised to make public how many times the organizations of defectors
from the DPRK did such acts before it calculates the times.
Our entire act is an essential measure taken in the principle of correspondence.

No matter how desperately the ROK may try to mislead public opinion as if our
correspondence is taken without reason, it will not come up to its intention.
We have no concern about who is the main force of provoking the recent drone incident and
its performers.
We only look squarely the fact that whatever the military gangsters and an organization of
human scum who defected from the DPRK, they are the fellows of the shameless ROK.
As we repeat our clear stand, we will take a strong corresponding retaliatory action in
disregard of ingredient in case drones carrying anti-DPRK political motivation rubbish from
the ROK across the border infiltrate again into the territorial sky of the DPRK.
This is the exercise of the sovereign state's right to self-defense that cannot be considered.
Those who are not taking any proper stand to check escalation of tension and armed conflict
but making 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 will be well advised to worry about the immediate price for repeated provocation and
cope with it.
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 abnormal
sophism, they will certainly pay a dear price for violently infringing upon the inviolable
sovereignty of our state and doing a serious harm to its security in any way.
I hope that the people will judge whether the strong and brave reckless and bold attitude of
the ROK military which jumps from the frying pan into the fire will 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 is not clarified in our military action plan.
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 will certainly lead to a horrible disaster.
Personally, I wish that such thing will not happen. -0-