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

This is a shameless act reminding one of a thief crying "Stop the thief!" It is, at the same time, an undisguised challenge to the ideology and system of fellow countrymen and a revelation of the wild design to escalate the confrontation.

Due to the puppet military going reckless to realize the ambition to invade the north, backed by foreign aggressor forces the inter-Korean military confrontation and tension have reached an extreme phase and there prevails such a dangerous situation on the Korean Peninsula that a war may break out there any moment. This is a hard reality.

No matter how hard the group of traitors may float the hackneyed fiction about someone's "provocation" no one will believe it.

Being the worst human rights abusers in the world, the GNP gentries are impudent enough to make much ado about someone's "human rights issue" and getting frantic with the confrontation racket.

Where no shame is, there is no fear. They are not entitled to talk about other's "human rights" and the like as they have reduced south Korea to a tundra of human rights and unhesitatingly committed such human right abuses as brutally killing people at the point of fascist bayonet.

With nothing can they hide their criminal intention to justify the crimes they have committed by driving the inter-Korean ties to collapse and do harm to the DPRK by hatching sinister plots at any cost.

The Lee group would be well advised to behave itself, bearing in mind that its escalated anti-DPRK smear campaign would bring into bolder relief its despicable true colors as traitors to the nation.