The Malta-Korea Society has warned Maltese journalists it is considering legal action for their "unbalanced reporting" of the death of Kim Jong Il.

"No journalist had the decency to ask the society whether the allegation that under the administration of our comrade Kim two million Koreans died of hunger, was true.

"Maltese journalists believed what they were told by American capitalists, and thus, their research was not carried out professionally."

The journalists, the society charged, also insisted that Korea's name was North Korea when the name actually was the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The other Korea seemed happy with the name South Korea, even though this was a stupid one, it said.

Journalists also failed to mention that a week's mourning in honour of Kim Jong Il was being held on the Qawra side of Bugibba, the society said.