Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a bylined article in this regard:

The regime's shocking attempt is nothing but a product of its anti-DPRK scenario to realize its wild ambition to achieve "the unification of social systems".

No sooner had the group of traitors come to power than it trumpeted that "unification under liberal democracy" was its "dream and final goal". It, at the same time, adopted "no nukes, opening and 3 000 dollars" as a "policy toward the north" in a criminal bid to bring down the dignified social system in the DPRK.

The Lee group has so far been dead-set against dialogue between the north and the south and any process to mend their relations and has frantically escalated the confrontation with the DPRK, talking about the "adherence to principles" and "waiting strategy". Its ulterior aim was to wait for any "change" to take place in the DPRK and realize its wild ambition for achieving "the unification of the social systems," availing itself of the "change".

The Lee group's noisy anti-DPRK row is, in essence, designed to achieve that aim and its ultimate goal is to launch a war against the DPRK.

A series of hideous crimes committed by the south Korean puppet regime cannot be construed otherwise than premeditated and deliberate provocations to cause "a contingency" to happen in the DPRK and start a war against it by taking advantage of this.

The Lee group's unending hideous provocations are a prelude to such war.

It went the lengths of daring hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, not content with having brought the inter-Korean relations to a total collapse, steeped in sycophancy and confrontation with fellow countrymen. It will have to pay a thousand-fold dearer price for these monstrous crimes.