Feeling uneasy about whether the U.S. policy towards the DPRK would not change after Trump takes office, they implored for keeping "cooperation in pressurizing the north" and vied with each other to shamelessly flatter their American master.

Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a commentary in this regard:

This is nothing but servile behaviors of pro-U.S. lackeys and wicked sycophants who are working hard to prolong their remaining days with the help of the U.S., the chieftain of aggression and plunder, which has inflicted all sorts of misfortune and sufferings upon the Koreans. These quislings turned down the good offer of the compatriots in the north to improve the inter-Korean ties and open up a broad avenue to independent reunification by concerted efforts of Koreans.

The commentary ridicules the south Korean puppet mandarins for vying with each other to flatter the new U.S. president in a bid to weather the political crisis and gratify their political greed with his backing.

It goes on:

What the puppet politicians must never forget is that those pro- American lackeys met a miserable end without exception for desperately pursuing the confrontation with the compatriots in the north in reliance upon outsiders, rejecting cooperation between fellow countrymen.

The commentary calls for not pardoning the traitors keen on stifling the DPRK but severely punishing them.