Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes this in a bylined article.

Now that the Lee group deliberately perpetrated the gravest political and military provocation to start a war against the north, it is quite natural to resolutely frustrate its moves, the article notes, and goes on:

The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army in a statement of its spokesman solemnly declared internally and externally that it would launch an indiscriminate sacred war of its own style to make a clean sweep of the worst traitor Lee Myung Bak from this land. This is a just self-defence measure reflecting the will and wishes of the people of the DPRK and all other Koreans.

There are no people who would remain a passive onlooker after their dignity had been hurt. The DPRK is shedding its rays as the most dignified and great independent power as it is holding President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il in high esteem. Nothing is greater honor for the Korean people to hold the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu in high esteem as they put the pride of the nation on the highest level. That is why all the people of the DPRK regard it as the highest honor and greatest happiness to live with the portraits of their leaders hung with the greatest care.

It is too late to warn those who have neither elementary etiquette nor morality as human beings. The Lee group no better than mad dogs should be beaten with a stick to death.

The DPRK never makes an empty talk.