Minju Joson Saturday says this in a by-lined commentary:

What the group seeks through the provocations is a sinister aim to spark off an armed conflict between the north and the south and ignite a war of aggression against the north, the commentary notes, and goes on:

The ulterior motive of the traitor is to deliberately rattle the nerves of the army and people of the DPRK in a bid to spark off an armed clash between the north and the south and start a war of aggression against it under this pretext. Among the successive fascist rulers in south Korea there was no one who did not run wild with confrontation with compatriots. But no one has perpetrated such ceaseless hideous provocations as hurting the dignity of the leadership in the DPRK as the Lee group did.

Through such unprecedented provocations it brought to light its true colors as maniacs keen on confrontation with compatriots and psychopaths precipitating its own destruction, putting the successive fascist rulers into the shade.

The above-said hideous provocations are little short of hastening the merciless punishment to be meted by the army and people of the DPRK to it.

The DPRK has never made an empty talk.