The statement recalled that the Seoul Central District Court in south Korea on the same day sentenced the vice-chairman and the secretary general of the South Headquarters of Pomminryon to heavy penalties on charges that they threatened the security of the community.

We can never recognize the ruling made by invoking the "Security Law", an evil law against human rights, the statement noted.

How do the condolatory visit to share the sorrow with the compatriots who suffered the greatest loss and the action taken to defuse the danger of war constitute a threat to the security of the community, it queried.

We will never tolerate the Lee Myung Bak group, the group of the worst sycophants and traitors keen to see its office come to an end by stepping up its confrontation policy against the DPRK, reunification and the nation, it declared, urging the south Korean authorities to abolish the "Security Law" and set free all the arrested pro-reunification patriots.