They even reviled the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its social system, calling them a "group of criminals", thereby distorting the prevailing situation on the Korean Peninsula and misleading the public opinion.

A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea in a statement Tuesday dismissed the south Korean media's rhetoric as another hideous provocation against the DPRK and an intolerable act of treachery.

The confrontation moves by the paid conservative media have now gone beyond the tolerance limit with the backing of the puppet regime, the spokesman said, and went on:

As had been branded by the public at home and abroad, the vicious conservative media of south Korea are no more than pseudo-media that have been reduced to a dutiful servant for the colonial ruler, a dirty waiting maid of fascist dictatorship and a hideous trumpeter inciting confrontation with fellow countrymen, quite contrary to their mission as media.

The north-south relations have been pushed to the lowest ebb in history and the south Koreans' living and safety have been seriously threatened. Such a serious situation is by no means irrelevant with the conservative media's coarse invectives against the DPRK.

If the group of the paid media is allowed to keep up the acts of treachery and confrontation with fellow countrymen, there will break out only a war.

The paid hack writers are hideous war criminals who should be sternly punished to death as they agitate confrontation with fellow countrymen, incite a war and foster injustice.

The army and people of the DPRK ready to fight a final battle with the aggressors and provokers will wipe out the hotbeds of top-class war crimes with the retaliatory blows of justice the moment a flare is shot up signaling the start of a battle for annihilating enemies.