Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This is an absolutely intolerable military provocation against the DPRK.

The south Korean regime is getting frantic with military provocations against the DPRK, not content with its anti-DPRK "sanctions" racket kicked up in collusion with outside forces over its legitimate step for self-defence. This is nothing but reckless actions to deliberately aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula and ignite a war against the DPRK at any cost.

What traitor Kim Kwan Jin uttered was by no means invectives let loose by him by accident. It tells that he is again going into his incurable war hysteria as it is a revelation of his inveterate antipathy towards the fellow countrymen in the north and his wild ambition to invade it.

The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors in south Korea is more dead than alive, cursed and forsaken by all Koreans. It is so foolish as to escape its doom by igniting a war. This group is the root cause of all disasters of the Korean nation which should be removed at the earliest possible date as it is making its last-ditch efforts to seek a way out of its abyss of ruin.

The army and people of the DPRK are fully ready to deal the most deadly and merciless retaliatory blows at the group. Its adventurous war scenario will only offer them a golden chance to achieve the historic cause of national reunification.