Rodong Sinmun says in a commentary Friday that the south Korea-U.S. "alliance" is, in essence, no more than a lever for domination and subordination and noose of submission.

It goes on:

The real ruler of south Korea is none other than the U.S. who maintains all power there.

South Korea is a colony of the U.S. as it has neither actual power nor prerogative over the army and its economy and culture depend on others.

The shameful history of south Korea-U.S. "alliance" which has lasted for more than a half century was a vicious cycle of tragedy in which the pro-U.S. lackeys offered all benefits of the nation to their master amid the U.S. colonial domination over south Korea getting tightened.

It is the south Korea-U.S. "alliance" that resulted in the vicious cycle of catastrophic north-south relations. The U.S. has persistently checked the improvement of the north-south relations, swayed by misgivings that such improvement would make it lose justification for its military presence in south Korea and an advanced base to militarily contain big powers of Northeast Asia and realize the ambition for global domination.

The history shows that when the "alliance" gets developed the tension of the Korean peninsula grows acuter and the distrust and confrontation between the north and the south are getting serious.

Sycophancy and submission to the U.S. leads to ruin and the national independence is the only way out.