Rodong Sinmun in a commentary on Sunday terms his trip a worthless trip of a beggar trying to get rid of the international isolation caused by his policy of toeing the U.S. line and a trip for escalating confrontation with the fellow countrymen through strengthened cooperation with the foreign forces in the anti-DPRK sanction and pressure racket.

The commentary says:

The south Korean chief executive was so shameless as to describe it as an effort for peace of the Korean peninsula and the region to screw up sanctions on the DPRK.

Dependence on outsiders and sycophantic treachery will only bring humiliation and disgrace.

The puppet regime should be mindful that its crazy moves for dependence on outsiders and confrontation with the fellow countrymen will only plunge it deeper into international isolation and crisis of its own destruction.