Rodong Sinmun today observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

This is another challenge to the fellow countrymen aspiring after reunification as it reveals Lee's black-hearted intention to bring the inter-Korean relations to complete collapse by more desperately pursuing his criminal "policy toward the north."

If Lee does not really want to see the total collapse of the inter-Korean relations, he should not stick to the said policy, the root cause of the deteriorated situation, but staff the ministry of "Unification" handling issues concerning the inter-Korean relations with those who stand for national reconciliation and reunification, the commentary notes, and continues:

However, Lee appointed Hyon to the above-said post though he crafted watchwords "no nukes, opening and 3,000 dollars" and even cried out for abolishing the said ministry.

Who can dare say that Lee is willing to put the inter-Korean relations on track and work for the peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Hyon at a "confirmation hearing at the National Assembly" and the "inaugural ceremony" described the anti-reunification policy escalating the inter-Korean confrontation as one for "peaceful reunification" and let loose a spate of absurd remarks linking the nuclear issue with the inter-Korean relations.

What Hyon uttered is nothing but sheer sophism spelled by one of Lee's yes men hell-bent on the moves to stifle fellow countrymen with the backing of foreign forces, ignorant of even the essence of the issue of reunification, a domestic issue of the nation.

It is nothing but a poor farce little short of burying one's head ostrich-like in the sand for this group of despicable anti-reunification traitors to talk about "sincerity" and "dialogue."

There is no way to improve the north-south Korean relations. The group of traitors will come to clearly know what disastrous consequences will be entailed by its criminal act of standing in confrontation with fellow countrymen, turning its back on the nation, warns the commentary.