Rodong Sinmun Thursday warns this in a byline article.

The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors displayed slogans hurting the army and system of the DPRK at barracks and posts of forefront units and various other places, stoking extreme hostility toward it, the article says, and goes on:

The evermore reckless acts of the puppet forces against the nation are a blatant challenge to the efforts to repair the inter-Korean relations and achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and unpardonable hideous provocation against the system and dignity of the DPRK.

Lee group's above-said provocations are a revelation of its treacherous design to escalate inter-Korean confrontation and tensions and an inevitable product of its moves to ignite a war against the DPRK.

The Lee group has never had any idea of having normal relations with the DPRK but sought to do harm to the dignified socialist system in the DPRK through plots and conspiracy.

The incident in which the group set up targets and fired at them and the hideous provocation perpetrated by it recently are the height of its moves to launch a war of aggression on the DPRK. It is the sinister scenario of the group to get on the nerves of the DPRK politically and militarily and escalate tensions and thus start a war against it.

The final conclusion drawn by the DPRK under the present grave situation is that no problem can be settled and only a war may break out as long as the Lee group is allowed to stay in power as it is hell-bent on confrontation with fellow countrymen. The DPRK remains strong in its resolution that there is no need to sit face-to-face with the group of traitors but settle accounts with it only by force of arms.