Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes this in a signed article.

It goes on:

This is a clear revelation of the U.S. anachronistic and criminal hostile policy towards the DPRK as it is obstructing the reconciliation, unity and reunification of the Korean nation and seeks to ignite a war of aggression against it.

The U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK is the one of national split and anti-reunification confrontation as it is designed to keep Korea divided into two and stoke mistrust and confrontation between the north and the south.

The U.S. forces landed in south Korea under the pretext of "disarming" the defeated Japanese army, prompted by the criminal scenario to turn south Korea into its colony and strategic stronghold and, on this basis, to put under its control Northeast Asia including the whole of Korea.

It is the sinister intention of the U.S. to invade the DPRK, keeping south Korea under its domination for an indefinite period and using it as its advanced base. The U.S. remains unchanged in its policy towards the DPRK aimed at antagonizing it and seizing it by force of arms.

The U.S. ever-more undisguised scenario to invade the DPRK found a vivid manifestation in the facts that it is escalating its rackets of international "sanctions" and "pressure" upon the DPRK, malignantly slandering its launch of a satellite and nuclear activities for self-defence and made a promise to provide "a nuclear umbrella" to the south Korean authorities in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, hinting at its start of a nuclear war.

It has become more apparent than ever before that lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula would be unthinkable without putting an end to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and its moves to isolate and suffocate the latter.

The U.S. had better roll back as early as possible its hostile policy towards the DPRK, the leftover of the outdated era of confrontation, which runs counter to the trend of the times towards peace and reunification, concludes the article.