The statement said:

The south Korean puppet group is forcibly detaining three residents of the DPRK under the absurd pretext that they "defected to the south" to separate them from their families. This is the base and vicious human rights abuse and another provocative act of escalating confrontation with the DPRK.

A saying goes every sin brings its punishment with it.

These days the Park Geun Hye group is vociferating about deceptive "dialogue" in a crafty bid to get out of the quagmire. But it can never cover up its ill-intentioned purpose to abuse the humanitarian issue for escalating confrontation with the DPRK.

The despicable conspiratorial racket kicked up by the group, keeping the crewmen in custody, would only touch off bitterer ridicule and criticism of the public at home and abroad.

The group should pay heed to the protest and denunciation of the people in the north and all other compatriots, send the crewmen back without delay and halt at once its futile racket.