Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a commentary in this regard:

This is a reckless provocation disturbing the hard-won peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Whenever the U.S. preemptive nuclear strike means were hurled into south Korea, the inter-Korean relations were used to be plunged into the danger of a nuclear war.

The south Korean authorities have paid lip-service to "dialogue" and "improved relations" between the north and the south but persisted in the provocations escalating the tension and harassing peace, obsessed with the conception of hostility and scenario of confrontation with the DPRK.

This is evidenced by the fact that they are taking issue with the DPRK over its exercise of the right to self-defence as "provocation" and getting more frantic than ever before in the international cooperation in the campaign to pressurize it in league with outsiders including the U.S.

They are giving impression that the atmosphere of dialogue is being chilled by the "provocation" from the north, an impudent behavior of those who are working hard to cover up their wicked intention to bedevil the inter-Korean relations.

If the U.S. and the south Korean authorities do not want to see catastrophic situation, they had better stop at once military confrontation escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula and chilling the dialogue atmosphere.