This is an unpardonable action committed by those, displeased with the achievements made by the DPRK in building a thriving nation, to tarnish the image of the DPRK, and a reckless action perpetrated by the paid trumpeter, the reactionary reptile paper dancing to the tune of the U.S.

The vicious anti-DPRK false propaganda kicked off by Japanese media which had already been reduced to political plot-breeding organs was a provocation perpetrated in pursuance of the Japanese reactionaries' hostile policy towards the DPRK.

Asahi Shimbun, acting a political maid and paid trumpeter, has taken an active part in the malignant smear campaign against the DPRK while joining hands with anti-DPRK groups. This is as foolish an act as digging its own grave, oblivious of the original mission of media, as it styled itself a champion of justice and truth in the past.

The recent provocative editorial program of the paper offers an undeniable proof that it has been reduced to a reptile paper little different from Sankei Shimbun, an ultra right-wing paper.

It is none other than Asahi Shimbun that has become desperate in spearheading the campaign to execute the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and the anti-DPRK campaign launched by the Japanese authorities pursuant to its policy.

In recent years this paper has interfered in the DPRK-related issues on the international arena with unusual zeal and has kept itself busy misleading the international public opinion over the DPRK even begging help from riffs-raffs.

Those who contributed dirty articles to the paper were ultra right conservatives of the U.S. and Japan who are steeped in anti-DPRK sentiment to the marrow of their bones without exception and, it is, therefore, quite natural that only anti-DPRK vituperation can be heard from them. What matters here is why this paper has become so desperate in the anti-DPRK campaign.

It is prompted by its calculation that it can please its U.S. master and right-wing forces in Japan by hurting the prestige and dignity of the DPRK and fanning up bitterness towards the DPRK in the Japanese society.

In a word, Asahi Shimbun could not conceal its true colors as a dirty reptile paper which was bribed for conducting propaganda against the DPRK.

But the Japanese reactionaries' anti-DPRK propaganda will get them nowhere.

No one in the world will lend an ear to their anti-DPRK rhetoric and the drive of the people of the DPRK to build a thriving nation is an epoch-making cause which no one can block.

Tricksters of Asahi Shimbun should not misjudge the trend of the times and they will have to pay dearly for their politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK.