Minju Joson Friday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This is a product of a sinister scenario to link the progressive forces in south Korea to the DPRK in a bid to more brutally suppress them.

It is brazen-faced, indeed, for Lee to try to shift onto the DPRK the responsibility for the warship case whose truth had already been revealed, while letting loose the above-said rhetoric. This is nothing but another politically-motivated provocation to the DPRK.

Ever since it came to power, the Lee group has raised a whirlwind of suppression of progressive forces in their actions to improve the relations between the north and the south and achieve independent reunification through the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration and October 4 declaration, calling for "eliminating pro-north leftist forces."

Lee's louder vociferation about "forces following the north" than ever before is designed to justify his undisguised crackdown on progressive forces by linking them with the DPRK and incite distrust in them among south Koreans in a bid to ostracize them in the society.

It is a trite method of the successive fascist dictators to find a way out of their extreme ruling crisis in suppressing progressive forces.

If such moves of the group of traitors are overlooked, conservative forces will stay in power. This would bring again unspeakable misfortune and disaster to the south Koreans.