Minju Joson Wednesday says in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This is no more than a folly to shift the blame for the failure of the resumption of the suspended tour of Mt. Kumgang on to the DPRK.

Citing facts to prove the puppet forces are a main culprit that scotched the tour, the commentary goes on:

The DPRK proposed the south side more than once to hold talks for the resumption of the tour of Mt. Kumgang.

However, the south Korean conservative group deliberately shunned the proposal, derailing working-level contact.

The group is paying lip-service to the resumption of the tour of Mt. Kumgang though it suspended the tour under absurd pretext out of its stand of persistent opposition to the tour. Lurking behind this is its sinister intention.

There are under way in south Korea strong actions to punish those chiefly responsible for the deteriorated north-south relations with the approach of "presidential election."

South Koreans are becoming increasingly assertive in their voices calling for resuming the tour of Mt. Kumgang on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of its start.

This is why the puppet conservative group is pretending to be interested in the issue of the tour by taking issue with the DPRK in a bid to cover up its crimes of having plunged the inter-Korean relations into deadlock and calm down the south Koreans' demand for the resumption of the tour.

With no rhetoric can the conservative group evade the legal responsibility for having suspended the tour of Mt. Kumgang and pushed the north-south ties to the lowest ebb, the commentary concludes.