Rodong Sinmun Friday in a commentary terms the U.S. behavior a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the Korean nation and an unpardonable crime.

It goes on:

Yankees' behavior is triggering off surging resentment of every Korean. The U.S. embassy's use of such map was not a simple mistake nor it was prompted by ignorance. This was a premeditated trick to support Japan in its claim to Tok Islets and assertion for "Sea of Japan".

By supporting and encouraging Japan in its ambition for territorial expansion the U.S. seeks to use Japan as a shock force in carrying out its scenario for occupying the whole of the Korean Peninsula and, furthermore, dominating the world.

It is quite obvious that the U.S. will make no scruple of dictating the south Korean puppet forces to hand over Tok Islets to Japan.

The U.S. is, however, grossly mistaken. The Korean Peninsula is no longer a distress-torn land in the past when outside forces could invade as they pleased. The Korean nation is no longer a weak nation who accepted the sorrow over statelessness as its fate.

The DPRK will never pardon the group of gangsters to grab the inviolable territory of Korea.