Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a commentary in this regard:

It is a grave challenge to the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and a cynical ploy to intensify an international campaign to stifle it.

The anti-DPRK human rights racket kicked off by the puppet group in league with the U.S. is a ridiculous artifice to conceal the truth about south Korea which turned into a colony of the U.S. and the worst tundra of democracy and human rights, tide over the ruling crisis caused by its unpopular rule and divert elsewhere the people's criticism of it.

The group had better reflect on the crimes it has committed by reviving the "yusin" dictatorship and ruthlessly trampling down democracy and human rights before impudently taking issue with others.

The group's above-said racket will only lead to stoking distrust and escalating confrontation between the north and the south and sparking off a war as it is part of the unpardonable criminal scenario to do harm to the social system in the DPRK and realize the ambition for achieving "the unification of the social systems" from A to Z. Such racket is provocative as joint military exercises against the DPRK.

This racket is pushing the seriously bedeviled inter-Korean relations to the brink of a war. Herein lies its gravity.