Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a bylined article terms this crime unpardonable hideous provocation.

The article says:

Those gangsters are elders more dead than alive who live on a petty amount of money given by the puppet regime in return for their evil acts perpetrated against the north. Such worst hooliganism would be unthinkable without the patronage and connivance of the puppet authorities.

The present authorities are going reckless, far from drawing a lesson from the miserable end of their predecessors. The recent hooliganism self-exposed that they are just the same as the Lee Myung Bak group in their confrontation stance.

In a reaction to the ultimatum issued by the north to mercilessly punish those who hurt the supreme dignity of the nation, they let loose such sophism that "it is hard to understand the action and what happened was an expression of freedom". This was nothing but ridiculous rhetoric to justify their hideous crime. Great irony is that they are pointing an accusing finger at the DPRK, crying out for "an end to threat". This behavior is lashing the service personnel and people of the DPRK into great fury as it reminds one of a guilty party filing the suit first.

Resolute is the DPRK's stand toward the above-said crime. Under present situation where the inter-Korean relations have been driven into the state of a war, it is a legitimate exercise of the inviolable right for the DPRK to react to the hostile forces' provocation through a practical retaliatory action, not by talking.