Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today terms these outbursts sophism and vituperation intended to evade their blame for having pushed the north-south relations to catastrophe and mislead public opinion at home and abroad and an unpardonable provocation to the DPRK.

The step taken by the DPRK is very just as it is an expression of the resolute principled stand and will of the DPRK not to pardon the group of traitors' criminal acts of daring hurt the supreme dignity of the DPRK and driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a war after pushing the inter-Korean relations to the phase of total collapse, seized with the consciousness of confrontation with fellow countrymen, the commentary notes, and goes on:

With no rhetoric can the Lee group evade the blame for having pushed the inter-Korean relations to the danger of total severance or cover up its true colors as anti-reunification elements and warmongers keen to do harm to fellow countrymen at any cost in league with foreign forces.

Steadfast is the principled stand of the DPRK. It always does as determined to do. It does not make any empty talk.

Prompted by the sense of the heavy responsibility for the destiny of the country and the nation, we will never overlook the reckless acts the group of traitors have perpetrated by standing in the way of implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and driving the inter-Korean relations to a catastrophic phase of total severance through unprecedented confrontational racket against the DPRK but resolutely counter them.

The fate of the inter-Korean relations entirely depends on the attitude of the authorities of the south side.