Rodong Sinmun Saturday observes in a signed commentary carried in this regard:

This was an excuse and clumsy rigmarole of those who were driven into a tight corner with a big defeat they sustained in their anti-DPRK smear campaign.

The conservative group, much upset by this, is letting loose a string of sheer lies to give impression that it is internationally "supported" while interpreting the contents of the presidential statement its own way. But the eyes of the public opinion are too bright that the group can hardly mislead the people's mindset through such a poor rhetoric.

The conservative group is miscalculated if it thinks it can conceal its monstrous crimes with such a lame excuse.

Those with sound reason and thinking faculty have seen through the truth of the anti-DPRK smear campaign orchestrated by the puppet group from the beginning.

The south Korean authorities should clearly understand that no excuses will help it get rid of the dilemma.

They had better roll back their foolish anti-DPRK smear campaign which escalates the confrontation and tension, receive the inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and sincerely come out for the north-south joint investigation into the case as the UNSC issued the presidential statement.

There is no other way out for them at present.