Rodong Sinmun on Saturday says in a bylined commentary in this regard:

What Lee uttered is nothing but drumbeats and agitation made by the maniac hell-bent on fanning up extreme antagonism and distrust between the north and the south and sparking off a new armed conflict.

Finding it hard to escape sledge-hammer blows of history, the group of traitors is making its last-ditch efforts to prolong its remaining days.

The reckless act of the traitor once again clearly shows who is the arch criminal escalating the tensions on the Korean Peninsula and bringing the danger of a nuclear war.

It is ridiculous, indeed, for Lee to cry out for "retaliation" as if he had a sort of "muscle" though he is more dead than alive as a politician.

No confrontation and war racket to seek a way out of its abyss of ruin would help the Lee group improve his difficult position.

The warmongers whose fate is as miserable as tiger moths are bound to perish in the flames of the resistance of all compatriots due to rage before long.