Rodong Sinmun Thursday says in an article in this regard:

In order to put the inter-Korean relations on to a new stage of epochal development on the basis of the agreement, it is important, first of all, to keep afloat the trend of the present situation in which the crisis was put on the track of detente with much effort.

The north and the south should not further escalate and push the situation into an extreme phase due to any sudden incident.

There are still dangerous factors of stemming the trend of the present situation after an opportunity was won with much effort for mending the inter-Korean relations.

The conservative betes noires are busy spreading wild rumor in a bid to play down the successes of the north-south high-level contact and significance of the joint press release and crying out even for scrapping the agreement.

The south Korean authorities sat face to face at the north-south high-level urgent contact and promised to defuse the touch-and-go situation and solve the issues through dialogue. This being a hard reality, they kicked off largest-ever provocative "integrated firepower annihilating drill 2015" against the DPRK in collusion with the U.S., even before the ink on the agreement got dry.

Urgent issues such as detente and preserving peace and the promotion of cooperation between the north and the south in various fields are awaiting solutions.

Their prospects depend on how they keep and operate the atmosphere of the improved inter-Korean relations.

Whether the north-south agreement yields good results or ends in an empty paper just like what happened in the past entirely depends on the role of the north- south authorities.