This is a ridiculous act of those ignorant of the trend of the times and the concept of sanctions and pressure, and it only reveals the despicable nature of the group of traitors running amuck without their own senses being seized by pursuance to outsiders and the racket of stifling the fellow countrymen, Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a commentary.

Sanctions and pressure can not go together with dialogue and sanctions and pressure precisely means confrontation, the commentary says, adding:

At a time when the U.S. is bringing the disaster of a nuclear war to the Korean peninsula through sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, the south Korean puppet forces offer the whole of south Korea as a nuclear war drilling ground and are fanning up the atmosphere of north-south stand-off, while flatteringly "thanking the master for taking tough stand". They are truly traitors to the nation.

The puppet forces are trying to get something by browbeating the DPRK through "sanctions and pressure". This is only an expression of ignorance of the DPRK.

The puppet forces have no justifications to talk about dialogue.

It was only some days ago that, the south Korean chief executive said "it is not time to suggest dialogue", dispirited by Trump's frantic act of getting angry even at a word of north-south dialogue.

The recent story about "simultaneous development of sanctions and pressure with dialogue" again raised by the puppet Unification Ministry can never be realized and will only create complexity and obstacles in settling the issue.