Rodong Sinmun Sunday observes in a bylined article in this regard:

What he uttered is an unpardonable political provocation to the DPRK as it revealed once again the criminal attempt to dare to disarm the DPRK by pressurizing "the north to dismantle nukes first" and realize the ambition for "unification under liberal democracy."

The above-said racket kicked up by the south Korean conservative group is an undisguised negation of the ideology and system of the fellow countrymen and a treacherous act to realize the above-said ambition, the article notes, and goes on:

The ultimate aim sought by the south Korean authorities in the said confrontation is to ignite a war of aggression against the DPRK.

The spate of reckless remarks made by Lee even during his foreign trip at a time when the above-said confrontation has gone into extremes in south Korea is little short of a declaration of a war against the DPRK.

The DPRK does not want to see the total collapse of the inter-Korean relations but will never allow the Lee group to escalate the racket for confrontation of the systems, opposed to the reunification by federal formula stipulated in the north-south joint declaration and decisively foil it.

It is no more than a foolish daydream for the south Korean conservative group to try to get something through the racket in a ridiculous anticipation of "contingency".