The U.S. announced the above-said "order" which calls for applying "additional sanctions" against the DPRK, though it has already been under harsh sanctions, the statement said, and went on:

The U.S. denial of the DPRK's proposal for joint investigation for probing the truth behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment proves that the U.S. is working hard to conceal something and afraid of the disclosure of its truth.

Hysteric and illogical acts perpetrated by the U.S. to shift the blame for the case onto the DPRK are reminiscent of those in the era of Cold War.

The U.S. imperialists are the chief criminals and sworn enemy of the Korean people as evidenced by their production of a movie insulting the dignity and the socialist system in the DPRK.

We express full support for the principled stand of socialist Korea advancing, invariably holding high the banner of Songun to cope with the U.S. imperialists' evermore undisguised provocations.