SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Saturday it had nothing to do with a vessel sunk by South Korean forces on Friday and criticized Seoul for fabricating the incident as part of an anti-North Korean campaign.
"The incidents have nothing to do with the North," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said, quoting a spokesman for the semi-governmental Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.The KCNA report said the incident was fabricated by South Korea to escalate tensions on the peninsula, the Cold War's last frontier, where the two sides remain technically at war.
"This frantic anti-communist campaign is a continuation of the anti-communist, anti-North campaign," the KCNA report said.
"We can no longer remain a passive onlooker to the South Korean puppets' continuous anti-communist campaign and slander against the North. The campaign can convince no one. We will take resolute measures so that the provokers may drink a bitter cup," it said.