Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed commentary observes this.

This is a provocative act of further aggravating the acute north-south relations and fueling the tension on the Korean Peninsula, the commentary notes, and goes on:

Traitor Lee Myung Bak invited the Japanese prime minister to south Korea and was loudmouthed about the "cooperation for the north's nuclear elimination" and "support to the settlement of the abduction issue" and conspired with the Japanese foreign minister the strengthening of the political and military ties against the fellow countrymen. This is because they are pursuing the common ambition of anti-DPRK confrontation and invasion of it.

It is the ulterior intention of the Lee Myung Bak group steeped in sycophancy and treachery to realize its wild ambition of invading the north even in collusion with the sworn enemy of the nation.

The Lee group's hatching anti-DPRK plot with the Japanese foreign minister is nothing but a declaration of negating national independence, the main principle of solving the issue of the nation, opposing the improvement of the inter-Korean relations and standing against the fellow countrymen in group with the foreign force to the last.

As long as such traitors to the nation, who run amuck with blood-shot eyes to tide over the ruling crisis and realize the ambition of confrontation with fellow countrymen, begging for the help of the outside force, exist, only war will break out, to say nothing of the improvement of the inter-Korean relations.

Tumor should be eliminated from its source and poisonous herb be rooted out.