The foreign ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued the following crucial statement on on Friday 11 October.
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The trigger for defending sovereignty and security will be pulled up without hesitation
The ROK is crossing the red line in its provocation against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The most hostile and malicious rogue state, the ROK, committed such a grave political and military provocation as infiltrating drones into Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK.
Drone infiltrations were conducted by the ROK on 3 and 9 October. They were followed by perpetration of such a hideous crime as scattering a huge number of anti-DPRK smear leaflets over the central part of Pyongyang through a midnight drone infiltration on 10 October.
Smear leaflets, run through with inflammatory rumours and rubbish tarnishing the national sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK and malignantly hurting its socialist system, were scattered in the central part of the capital city.
Not content with scattering leaflets along the border via balloons, the ROK infiltrated even into the sky of the DPRK’s capital such drones as may be regarded as military attack means. The case is a serious provocation that can neither be overlooked nor be pardoned.
This provocation beyond the limit line constitutes an open infringement on the sacred national sovereignty and security of the DPRK, a wanton violation of international law and a grave military attack, for which the ROK must pay a dear price.
The ROK should neither justify the recent case in a trite way nor think of shirking its responsibility by making far-fetched assertions again.
The case is a typical example that vividly betrays the national position of the ROK, which belongs to the most shameless, childish and vulgar category in the world, and the meanness of its elite clans.
It is also evidence of the danger of imminent armed conflict that is being created on the Korean peninsula as a result of the reckless and adventurist acts of the ROK.
The international community should strongly denounce the bravado of the ROK, which is steadily escalating the danger of military conflict in the region and committing endless provocations whose aftermath it cannot sustain.
International law does not allow free flight of foreign aircraft or flying objects in the territorial airspace of another country, including so-called ‘harmless flight’.
The recent intrusion into DPRK airspace is a grave crime encroaching upon the country’s sovereignty and a clear target of the exercise of the right to self-defence.
The ROK has chosen self-destruction and is hastening its own doom.
