Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

What merits a serious attention is that the case was neither mere revenge of those "in power" upon those who "lost power" nor the murder prompted by hostility towards Roh.

The case was an unprecedentedly brutal action and a hideous anti-reunification fascist man-killing farce intended to suppress and eliminate the forces struggling to achieve national independence and reunification through alliance with the north and scrap the historic October 4 declaration. The Lee Myung Bak group dealt a politically fatal blow at the man who signed the declaration and thus forced him to commit a suicide, bringing to light once again its traitorous act of denying the declaration and ambition for confrontation with fellow countrymen contrary to national reconciliation and unity and independent reunification.

Now people's indignation and grudge against the Lee group of traitors are towering in south Korea in the wake of the death of the former "president." South Korean people from all walks of life are unanimous in saying that the death of Roh was "a politically motivated murder by the Lee Myung Bak regime" and "de facto death caused by torture" and strongly demand traitor Lee make an apology for it and call for "wholesale resignation of the Cabinet" and "investigation into the state administration."

With no sleight of hand can the Lee Myung Bak group evade the responsibility for the tragic death nor can it bar the resentment of the people from developing into all-people resistance.

The Lee group will surely have to pay dearly for its unprecedented crimes.