Pyongyang not involved in Cheonan corvette sinking-DPRK Def Cmssn

PYONGYANG, May 16 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea has no relation whatsoever
to the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in the Yellow Sea on
March 26, 2010. It is said in a statement of the group of inspectors of
the National Defence Commission (NDC) circulated through the North's
official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday. Meanwhile, it says,
Seoul continues demand from Pyongyang "apologies for this incident as a
precondition for improving inter-Korean relations."
In addition, the statement notes, Seoul "is trying without any
evidence to place responsibility on the DPRK for the artillery firing in
the area of the Yeonpyeong Island last November last year, it has also
accused Pyongyang of cyber attacks on the South Korean computer network on
May 3."
The NDC representatives stressed that the DPRK regards such actions of
the South Korean authorities "a major provocation" with a view to
exacerbating tensions in relations with their compatriots in the North,
"an attempt to find an external enemy to justify their failures in the
foreign and domestic policy."
The statement notes that the inspectors of the NDC that is responsible
for the DPRK security will make efforts "to ascertain the whole truth
about the circumstances of Cheonan's sinking."
Last May, the investigation commission with experts from the United
States, Britain, Australia and Sweden that was created in South Korea,
announced that the ship was sunk by a torpedo attack. It is said in the
case materials that North Korean marking was allegedly found on the
fragments of the torpedo. After that, North Korea demanded from Seoul and
Washington to admit a group of military experts from the National Defence
Commission to the place of the corvette's sinking to verify this
information, but the request was turned down.
According to KCNA, the inspection group of the National Defence
Commission of the DPRK issued the third instalment of the statement
disclosing the ulterior attempt of the south Korean group of traitors
faking up the third and fourth Cheonan warship cases, obsessed by the
anachronistic ambition. The statement cited material evidence proving that
the "story about North's involvement" touted by the group of traitors is
false.
It said:
It was disclosed before the whole world that the Cheonan warship case
was the most hideous conspiratorial case aimed to escalate the
confrontation with compatriots but the group of traitors are still
floating the above-said story. The NDC inspection group published a
statement to disclose the conspiratorial nature of the Cheonan case faked
up by the group of traitors as it was left with no other way to fairly
settle the case even though it resorted to every possible means and
methods. The puppet group which suffered disgrace in the eyes of the world
provoked the second Cheonan case, far from repenting of its wrongs.
It was the Yonphyong Island shelling last year.
The group of traitors is faking up farces one after another to expand
the scope of confrontation with fellow countrymen to social domain beyond
political and military fields. The puppet Intelligence Service and
Prosecution invented the story about "the North's involvement" in the
cyber attack on the banking computer network of the "National Agricultural
Cooperative Federation" on May 3. In the course of 20 odd day-long
"intensive investigation" they drew a "tentative conclusion" that this was
primarily caused by "cyber terrorism from outside." A few days later they
released the results of investigation in which they claimed it was "done
by the north."
Meanwhile, they are floating the "story about the threat from the
North" throughout South Korea, making much ado that the north may continue
doing fatal damage to core facilities related to the security including
the puppet authorities organs, airports, harbours and nuclear power plants.
It is needless to say that this incident has a thread of connection
with the Cheonan case for its motive and method though it was cooked up in
other field.
The Cheonan case timed to coincide with the situation where they felt
the urgent need to create serious "security concern" in a bid to put off
the transfer of the right to command wartime operations by inventing a
pretext for the permanent US presence in south Korea.
In a bid to keep the nature of the charade buried into oblivion
forever, they fabricated the case in a place and at time unfavourable for
clarifying the case, i.e., in territorial waters, not in the open sea,
underwater, not on the surface of waters and at midnight, not at noonday.
This case took the lives of 46 innocent seamen.
The story about "the North's involvement" in the above-said cyber
attack was faked up at a time when the Chongwadae and the "Grand National
Party" were locked in a fierce dog fight, blaming each other for the
shameful defeat they suffered in the April 27 by-election due to the
public condemnation of their unpopular rule. It also timed to coincide
with their efforts to seek an artifice to calm down the voices of
countries around the Korean Peninsula demanding the resumption of
dialogue, the statement says, in particular, according to KCNA.