Commenting on such utterances, Rodong Sinmun Sunday says:

This is sophism aimed to evade the criminal responsibility for having bedeviled the inter-Korean relations, cover up their poor situation in which they have been driven into ditch as the refuse of the June 15 era of reunification and mislead the angry public opinion.

Lee Myung Bak is persisting in the confrontational stand vociferating about "adherence to the principle" even today when the inter-Korean relations have been put to the uncontrollable and hopeless, serious crisis. This indicates that he seeks to lead the already collapsed inter-Korean relations to a war without any idea to save the inter-Korean relations from the crisis.

Such criminal intention of the traitor is evidenced by his remarks that the south "would not make haste" with the normalization of the relations with the north.

The traitor was so impudent as to talk nonsense that the south is "ready to cooperate" with the north. His remarks are a third-rate deceptive trick to evade the blame for having violated the inter-Korean joint declarations and spoiled the dialogue and cooperation and divert the public opinion at home and abroad elsewhere.

As already and evidently declared, such anti-reunification traitor as Lee Myung Bak can never be a dialogue partner of the DPRK.

What the Lee Myung Bak group talking about "adherence to the principle" will face is only its shameful destruction, the commentary concludes.