DPRK warns S. Korea of "dear price" for slandering

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned Tuesday that the South Korean government would pay a dear price for flagrant slandering.

Seoul's Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min Seok told a press briefing Monday that "the North is an abnormal state and should vanish as soon as possible" while denouncing Pyongyang's denial of sending drones to the South.

In response to the remarks, the powerful National Defense Commission (NDC) of the DPRK on Tuesday slammed the South Korean official's verbal attacks as "intolerable."

"What the Park group uttered this time is an undisguised revelation of its wild ambition to achieve unification by absorption and a declaration of all-out confrontation with the DPRK's social system," the official KCNA news agency quoted the NDC as saying.

South Korea's Defense Ministry said that three drones that crashed across the border in late March and early April were all sent from the DPRK, citing an analysis of geographical data retrieved from the spy aircraft.

The NDC said on Sunday that Pyongyang has no involvement in the drone case, proposing once again that the two Koreas conduct a joint probe into the case, a demand soon spurned by South Korea.