Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a bylined article.

The on-going all-out action is a showdown between the Korean nation and the U.S., says the article, and goes on:

It is the unanimous will of all the service personnel and people of the DPRK to terminate with a final victory the decades-long confrontation with the U.S. through the all-out action with the tremendous military deterrence that has been bolstered up, and by the concerted efforts of the nation.

It is necessary to intensify the all-people patriotic resistance and the anti-U.S. sacred war in south Korea and overseas, too, to drive out the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces out of south Korea and remove the root cause of a war.

The Korean nation will achieve national reunification, the cherished desire of the nation, and lose only the Military Demarcation Line through the final do-or-die showdown.

The Koreans can neither be in peace nor escape from the disaster of a nuclear war as long as the pro-U.S. group of traitors is allowed to be at large in south Korea.

It is due to the pro-U.S. sycophants and traitors that the U.S. imperialists are persisting in their brigandish and arbitrary acts and provocations to ignite a war against the DPRK and committing crimes against the south Korean people, still keeping south Korea under their occupation.

The on-going all-out action is a sacred struggle to let all Koreans enjoy peace and prosperity in a reunified country without aggressors and traitors and advance towards a hopeful future.

All Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should join in this cause common to the nation, irrespective of ideology and ism, class and stratum, men and women and young and old.

Now is the time for every Korean to unite close and resolutely turn out in the patriotic struggle to defend the nation's destiny and thus discharge the noble mission and historic responsibility.