The article said that the opposition parties' landslide over the "Grand National Party" in the recent by-election in south Korea was a stern punishment meted out by the people to the GNP.

The GNP's defeat was due to the fact that it spoiled the atmosphere of reconciliation with the DPRK and enforced treacherous and unpopular "policies", violating democracy, it added.

Publications of south Korea have described the results of the by-election as an eruption of the surging wrath of the people at the present "government" and the GNP that drew the people to the crisis of war, following outside forces, the article said.