This is a sinister plot to escalate the anti-DPRK confrontation racket while justifying it as the one for dialogue, Rodong Sinmun Sunday says in a commentary.

It goes on:

The above-said "strategy" much touted by the south Korean puppet regime is a no more than a gimmick used by the U.S. to isolate and stifle the DPRK.

Now the south Korean puppet regime, being zealously pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK, works hard to apply the Washington's strategy for stifling the DPRK to the north-south relations.

The puppet regime seeks in its moves such a sinister intention as to pass the buck for the worsened inter-Korean relations to the north and distract the public attention to tide over its ruling crisis caused by MERS disaster.

They try to make the public convince that dialogue has not been made due to the north while getting them busy with confrontation racket. It is self-evident that it is impossible to expect proper dialogue and improvement of the north-south relations from the south Korean authorities.

The south Korean regime should clarify its stand on dialogue and confrontation.

They should drop their bad habit of doing harm to the fellow countrymen in the north in collusion with outside forces, bearing in mind that its petty trick can never work.