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

The Lee group's propaganda is aimed at deliberately rattling the nerves of the DPRK and compelling it to take a military counter-action and igniting a war against it under this pretext.

The commentary goes on:

These war exercises further escalated the tension on the Korean Peninsula.

The Lee group is tightening the military nexus with Japan, not content with frequently staging saber-rattling under the pretext of "provocations from the north." The group claims south Korea is cooperating with Japan in its efforts to "cope with provocations from the north" such as its "missile launch."

The Lee group persistently insists that the north's satellite launch was a "missile launch and provocation" and is using this as a pretext for boosting military collusion with the sworn enemy, the Japanese reactionaries. It is the sinister scenario of the group to get the Japanese reactionaries busy going nuclear, brandishing their swords for reinvasion, involved in war moves against the north so as to do harm to fellow countrymen.

By straining the situation through its ridiculous trumpeting about "provocations of the north", the Lee group seeks to divert the attention of the angry people focused on it and tide over the worsening crisis.

With no rhetoric, however, can the Lee group hide the true colors as provocateurs that brought the inter-Korean relations to collapse and drove the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. It will never escape a severe punishment by the nation.