The commentary denounced the U.S. and the present "government" for making much fuss about "additional provocation" over the north's third underground nuclear test.

The prevailing grave situation is the natural outcome of the hostile policy pursued by the U.S. towards the DPRK over a long period and the severed south-north relations, it said, adding:

The historic course of the DPRK-U.S. confrontation which has lasted for over half a century goes to clearly prove that the hard-line policy backed by force can never bring the DPRK to its knees.

In order to clear away the dark clouds of a war hanging heavily over the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. should recognize the injustice of its hostile policy toward the DPRK and opt for dialogue for building a peace-keeping mechanism on the peninsula.

Standing at the crossroads of war and peace, the "government" should not stick to such humiliating methods as U.S.-Japan cooperation and UN "sanctions" but positively opt for improving the south-north relations from the stand of solving the issue of the peninsula in the spirit of "By our nation itself".

The commentary called for taking the road of implementing the south-north joint declarations and the road of exchange, cooperation and independent reunification, not confrontation and antagonism at a time when the Korean nation is facing a stern trial.