The newly-revived Malta Communist Party today accused the US and South Korea of 'framing' North Korea over the sinking of the South Korean Warship Cheonan.

"The Cheonan incident has a strong smell of foul play committed by the accusers. This reminds us of another similar incident in the past. During Cuba’s war of independence the USS warship Maine was blown up in Havana harbour, and the US conveniently blamed Spain for this misdeed, so it could interfere in Cuba’s liberation war," the party said.

"Had the DPRK sunk the Cheonan as it is being claimed it would not had been afraid to declare it it. The DPRK was not scared to capture US gunboats that trespassed into its territorial waters in the past."

It added that the results alleged by the investigations of the causes that sunk the Cheonan were concluded by those who lied on weapons of mass destruction that Iraq was alleged to possess prior to the Iraqi Invasion.

"US imperialism which was instrumental in splitting Korea into two separate states and has kept its influence through a series of military puppet dictators and always thwarted the people’s wishes for reunification of the two Koreas.

"The US still cannot stomach the defeat it suffered it suffered at the hands the Democratic Korea People’s Army during the Korean War and 57 years on," the Communist Party said.