周二，朝鲜方面称韩国所谓“平壤蓄意在非军事区内埋设两枚地雷，导致上月发生爆炸并造成三名韩国士兵受伤”的说法纯属“推卸责任”。朝鲜外交部在由官方媒体朝鲜中央通讯社发布的声明中称：“这起‘地雷爆炸事件’是韩国蓄意制造的阻挠手段，其目的就是将我国为捍卫南部边境安全而采取的合法主权行动歪曲为‘军事入侵’，以此拖延并阻碍相关举措的实施。”
North Korea on Tuesday called South Korea’s claim that Pyongyang “deliberately planted” two mines inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which exploded last month and wounded three South Korean soldiers, “blame shifting.”“The ‘mine-explosion case’ is a sinister obstructive move intended to brand our fortification of the southern border, downright exercise of the sovereignty, as a ‘military invasion’ and delay and check it,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
平壤方面指出，这起事件不过是韩国“为把自身失误的责任转嫁到我国头上而使出的拙劣伎俩”。此前，首尔方面于周一声称平壤“蓄意埋设”了这两枚地雷，并再次要求朝鲜道歉。
Pyongyang said the incident was “no more than a poor trick” by South Korea “to shift the blame for its own accident onto us.”North Korea’s reaction came after Seoul said Monday that Pyongyang had “deliberately planted” the two mines and reiterated its demand for an apology.
韩国联合参谋本部副议长权大元中将在新闻发布会上呼吁：“军方强烈要求朝鲜向在地雷爆炸中受伤的韩国士兵真诚道歉，并立即清除其违反停战协定所埋设的地雷。”
“The military strongly calls on North Korea to offer a sincere apology to the South Korean soldiers injured in the mine blast and immediately remove the mines it planted in violation of the armistice agreement,” Lt. Gen. Kwon Dae-won, vice chairman of the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), told a news conference.
朝鲜外交部还称，首尔方面“企图让朝鲜为这场由其单方面策划、捏造的蓄意闹剧承担责任，以此损害朝鲜的国际形象”。
Seoul “seeks to hold” Pyongyang “accountable for the premeditated farce, fabricated and determined unilaterally by it, and tarnish the latter’s international image,” the North’s ministry said.
该部同时强调：“朝鲜断然拒绝这种卑劣行径，并严正声明：我国必将以更加坚决、果敢的态度行使正当主权权利，切实保障南部边境的安全。”
North Korea “categorically rejects the despicable attempt” and “solemnly clarifies that our state will exercise its just sovereign rights in a more resolute and bold manner to ensure the security of the southern border,” it added.
“对于与我们无关的排雷行动，我们毫不在意；对于韩国的这种闹剧，我们也没有任何理由予以理会。”外交部如此表示。
“We do not care about them trying to remove the mines irrelevant to us, and we have no reason to pay heed to such farce of the ROK,” the ministry said.
声明警告称，倘若“韩国方面有任何人员或火苗哪怕只越过边界一毫米，侵犯我国领土”，朝鲜边防部队必将采取“迅速且强有力的反击措施”。
It warned that if “a jackboot or a spark of fire from the ROK goes even a millimeter beyond the border to violate our territory,” North Korean border guards would take “immediate and powerful counteraction.”
声明还指出，今后若发生类似事件，朝鲜“概不负责”，责任完全应由引发事件的一方承担。自1950年至1953年的朝鲜战争以停战而非和平条约告终后，朝鲜半岛便一直处于分裂状态，从法律层面而言，朝韩两国仍处于战争状态。
It added that if a similar incident occurs in the future, North Korea is “not responsible for it,” saying the side that sustains the incident would be “entirely accountable.”The Korean Peninsula has remained divided since the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the two Koreas technically at war.