Official figures of the U.S. administration including the secretaries of Treasury and Defense and the U.S. ambassador at the UN said that strong sanctions and pressure of the international community brought about the "change" in the DPRK, blustering that they would continue to put "maximum pressure".

Minju Joson Tuesday in a commentary denounces this as a sleep talk of those who are still caught in the anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Sanctions and pressure never constitute an all-cure means for satisfying the U.S. interests, the commentary notes, and goes on:

The intent to steadily brandish the "sanctions" stick regardless of time will provoke censure and laughter of the world people.

The U.S. had better drop the Yankee-style disposition of invading and plundering others, and learn the way of approaching others with good manners and respecting them.

The U.S. policy-makers should lend an ear to the world opinion that they should not miss the opportunity, now that the DPRK took the eventful measure of epochal significance, and respond to it with sincerity for the development of the situation.