The president, the secretary of State and other U.S. high-ranking authorities vied with each other to claim that it was confirmed that the cyber attack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment was manipulated by the DPRK behind the scene, and cried out for taking "symmetric counteraction" and "re-designating the DPRK as a sponsor of terrorism".

Commenting on this, Minju Joson Tuesday says this is nothing but signs of an impending downfall of those seized with the moves for slandering the DPRK.

We cannot but take a serious note of the fact that the U.S. is focusing its offensive for stifling the DPRK on hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, the commentary notes, and goes on:

As the U.S. openly revealed its criminal attempt to bring down the idea and social system of the DPRK while getting frantic in the anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign, the DPRK solemnly declared at home and abroad that it would take the unheard-of toughest counteraction.

It is the disposition and mode of struggle of the DPRK that it does not make empty words and that it would do once it declared to do.

The U.S. and the riff-ruffs following it had better not bring misfortune by themselves.

The Sony Pictures Entertainment incident is a misfortune and disaster caused by the U.S. itself, not by others.

The U.S. would be well advised to stop at once its provocation moves against the DPRK and respond to its demand for a joint investigation for the present.