They kicked off the racket for eliminating the "forces following the north" without reflecting on their treacherous acts. This is no more than a wicked trick to pass the buck for the incident to the DPRK, says Rodong Sinmun Monday in a commentary.

It goes on:

The sinister intention of the puppet forces is to calm down the mounting anti-U.S. spirit, suppress and obliterate the pro-reunification patriotic forces in south Korea by linking them with the DPRK and, furthermore, intensify the international anti-DPRK confrontational cooperation.

The puppet authorities are building up public opinion over the case to help the U.S. create a pretext necessary for branding the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism".

They are trying to curry favor with their master through such a sleazy method, an act that can be committed only by those lost to shame.

If they label the righteous action opposing a war and supporting the peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula as "terrorism", this means the anti-Japanese patriotic deed of martyr An Jung Gun can be taken as "terrorism".

The country's reunification, the desire of compatriots, is becoming more distant owing to such traitors who have not an iota of national self-respect.

It is shame on the colonial puppet forces as they bring charges against those who take the nation dearer than outside forces and take part in the righteous resistance for the nation.

Tragedy is that they do not feel ashamed of those acts.