The Benin-Korea Amicable Association "Long Live Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader" and the Benin National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea in a joint statement said that the DPRK declared to open a wide avenue to independent reunification by bringing about great change in the north-south relations and made every possible effort for it.

However, the south Korean authorities cooked up the "north's shelling" incident and fired dozens of shells into the area of the DPRK, the statement added.

The Nigeria-Korea Friendship Association and the Nigerian national preparatory committee for celebrating the 70th anniversaries of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea and liberation of Korea in a joint statement said the dangerous provocation by the south Korean authorities on the Korean Peninsula is a grave threat to peace and security on the peninsula and in the rest of Northeast Asia and the world.

The Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in a joint statement said:

The bellicose pro-U.S. traitorous group of Park Geun Hye should clearly know that they would meet a miserable end if they persist in the criminal and provocative moves for a war against the DPRK.

We fully support the order of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un to let the frontline large combined units of the Korean People's Army move to a war footing and to put the area along the front on semi-state of war.