Minju Joson Friday says this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

Had Lee had even an iota of national consciousness, he should have urged the Japanese reactionaries to stop vociferating about the "abduction issue" and settle their crime-woven past.

But instead of doing so, he echoed the Japanese reactionaries' trumpeting about the "abduction issue," thereby bringing to light his black-hearted intention to do harm to compatriots in league with the Japanese reactionaries who have unsheathed their swords to launch reinvasion far from settling their sinful past.

This is absolutely unpardonable as it is an act of betraying the nation to serve Japan and a move to escalate the confrontation with compatriots, crimes which can be committed only by Lee who buried the soul of the nation in Osaka, Japan after being born there.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that Lee let loose a spate of reckless remarks calling for dependence on foreign forces and confrontation with compatriots at a time when the inter-relations have been pushed to such an extreme and uncontrollable phase. Herein lies the gravity of the problem.

The inter-Korean relations can never witness any improvement and cannot but go from bad to worse as long as the traitor keeps to the road of depending on foreign forces and escalating the confrontation with compatriots.

It is a fantastic day-dream for Lee to try to harm the DPRK by relying on the Japanese reactionaries as well as on the U.S. This behavior of Lee would get the traitor to nowhere. Only a stern judgment of the nation awaits him.

Lee Myung Bak would be well advised to stop such foolish an act as dancing to the tune of outsiders.