There is increasing international tendency to get in touch with the north whereas south Korea has a growing pile of evils, the paper said, and went on:

Its agreement made with the U.S. to indefinitely extend the transfer of the right to the wartime operation control has only deepened internal division.

The issue of allowing the deployment of THAAD drew strong censure from other countries.

South Korea's poor diplomacy is an inevitable product of such improper policies as "confidence-building process".

The authorities should consider the improvement of the relations with the north as a starting point for settling the prevailing situation.

Hanguk Ilbo also published an editorial in which it said south Korea's diplomacy is facing a crisis, adding that now is time for the "government" to reexamine the principles concerning the south-north relations.