Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

What he uttered is nothing but sheer sophism intended to shift the blame for the increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula on to the DPRK and intensify the confrontation racket against it.

As proven by the present reality, it is none other than the Lee group which is chiefly to blame for deteriorating the inter-Korean relations and escalating the confrontation and tension through its reckless campaign against the DPRK.

Our fellow countrymen still vividly remember how the puppet forces orchestrated the "Cheonan" warship sinking case and the Yonphyong Island shelling incident last year, pushing the inter-Korean relations to a touch and go situation.

What is more intolerable is that the Lee group hurled in succession hooligans of the puppet army recently to perpetrate such hideous provocations as heaping malignant slanders and calumnies on the system and dignity of the DPRK. These provocations are little short of a deliberate and open declaration of war as they are the most reckless confrontation acts baffling human imagination in the history of the inter-Korean relations. What face do perpetrators of such vicious provocations have to pull up DPRK over "provocations" and the like?

Now that the group has made such extreme provocation as threatening not to rule out even a war against the DPRK, there remains only physical settlement between the north and the south.

As the DPRK had already clarified, it will not deal with the Lee group any longer but go over to a nationwide all-out offensive for forcing it to pay for all its crimes.