Minju Joson Sunday in a commentary terms this a blatant challenge to the desire of all Koreans for the improved inter-Korean relations and the reunification of the country.

Branding Hong as a confrontation maniac and bete noire who has committed all sorts of crimes against the people, nation and reunification as a special-class confident of Park, the commentary goes on:

It is the demand of the south Korean people that Hong be ousted from the post of the minister of Unification at once. Had he have an elementary sense and consciousness, he should have already chosen his way, heeding the voices of the people.

However, what he learned is just flattery and greed for power and he is as impudent as Park. That is why he is still going so shameless as to blare the worn-out trumpet about confrontation.

He is, no doubt, an idiot bereft of even elementary ability to face up to the reality.

From the outset of the year Hong is making his last-ditch efforts to divert elsewhere the south Korean public bitter criticism of the puppet regime and escape its miserable fate already sealed through outbursts inciting confrontation. But this is as foolish as a dog barking at the moon.