Commenting on this, Minju Joson Thursday terms it hysterics.

Today the army and people of the DPRK are making world-startling miracles and brilliant successes in bolstering up nuclear deterrent and building socialist economy under the uplifted banner of the self-development-first principle, the commentary says, and goes on:

Park's assertion is, in essence, a paradox to tarnish the image of the daily-developing DPRK by misleading the public opinion at home and abroad.

It is little short of heinous last-ditch effort to keep up Park's policy for confrontation with the DPRK, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

It is also a futile move of fools to soothe their miserable position of being driven into a predicament while getting frenzy with their sanctions racket against the DPRK.

The Park group should bear in mind that its persistent policy for confrontation with the DPRK and sanctions against it can never work on the latter and that it can never evade the miserable fate of being driven into the cesspool of history.