The statement vehemently condemned the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet authorities' escalating reckless military provocations as a blatant challenge to the international community denying the "story about the north's involvement" in the warship "Cheonan" case and hoping for defusing the tension on the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner and as actions running counter to the intention of the U.N.

It is quite natural for the army and people of the DPRK to start a retaliatory sacred war based on powerful nuclear deterrent for self-defence any time deemed necessary in order to deter the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces from deliberately pushing the situation to the brink of war, it stressed.

The statement supported the just stand of the army and people of the DPRK which declared that they would take all steps to the last to thoroughly probe the truth about the fabrication and charade cooked up by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces and strongly demanded the chief architects of the case respond without delay to the proposal of the DPRK NDC for sending its inspection group for field investigation in south Korea.

It called on the political parties, governments and organizations of the world to create international atmosphere of chiding the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces for faking up the "Cheonan" case, a sheer fabrication and charade orchestrated by them, and extend positive support to the army and people of the DPRK in their struggle to defend the security of the country and the dignity and honor of the nation.