Monday 24th of May
The UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) today issued the following
statement.
We unreservedly and wholeheartedly support the statements made by the
DPRK National Defence Commission and the DPRK Foreign Ministry and also
the Committee For the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.

The DPRK National Defence Commission the supreme body of state power in the
DPRK on May 20th put forward a just demand to send a special investigation
team to south Korea to look at the evidence.However south Korea has
refused to allow the team into south Korea.This proves that they have
something to hide.
It is normal practice and legally nessecary for an accuser to present
evidence of the alleged crime to the accused but the south Korean puppet
regime has negated this normal and common place practice.Indeed it has
gone against the principle of Haebas Corpus.
As to the evidence itself it looks like something that has been fetched from
a museum.The pictures show that is old and rusty.
Some respected international commentators have pointed out that the real cause of the sinking is probably a 'friendly fire ' incident and believe it was the US nuclear submarine the USS Columbia which sank the South Korean warship and has sank itself.

UK KFA believes that there are several possiblities for the cause of the sinking of the Cheonan;

1)Sank in 'friendly fire' incident with US forces
2)Sank due to accident caused by incompetence and misjudgement of South
Korean puppet naval forces
3)A deliberately premeditated conspiracy by US and south Korea to
whip up tension.

UK KFA demands the US imperialists and south Korean puppets stop anti
DPRK campaign at once and hold a proper investigation into the incident.
The UK media and government must also desist from whipping up anti DPRK
hysteria.

We support the just stand of the DPRK to take self defensive measures if
more sanctions are applied and to answer retaliation with retaliation.

Hands Off the DPRK !