Meanwhile, Rodman and his agent feel they are partially responsible for the North Korea's release of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died last Monday, just days after being medically evacuated from a North Korean prison on the day the former National Basketball Association star arrived.
The paper called Moon a "spokesman" for U.S. President Donald Trump, claiming that the South is joining the bandwagon of Washington's hostile policy toward Pyongyang. He said that North Korea had accepted the Trump administration's "repeated requests" for Mr. Warmbier's release and, "in consideration of his bad health, sent him back home on humanitarian grounds".
"South Korea must realise that following psychopath Trump...will only lead to disaster", an editorial carried by the paper said.
The United States has demanded North Korea release three other US citizens it holds in detention: missionary Kim Dong Chul and academics Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song.
Warmbier's father Fred earlier told reporters that his son was lured to North Korea, as other USA tourists have been, by tour groups run out of China.
Warmbier was detained at the Pyongyang airport in January 2016 after a short tour of North Korea.
USA officials have blamed North Korea for Warmbier's death, and President Donald Trump condemned "the brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim".
His family declined an autopsy to determine what may have caused him to fall into a coma on his return to America.
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"This college kid never should have been detained in the first place", said Portman, who previously revealed that he met secretly with North Korean officials in NY last December to press for Warmbier's release. "I didn't know he was sick", Rodman says.
She said he was in tears after Warmbier died.
People attend the funeral service of Otto Warmbier in Wyoming, Ohio, at the high school the 22-year-old college student had attended.
Mr. Rodman, who returned to the United States this week after his fifth trip to the hermit country, told ABC News host Michael Strahan that people don't see enough of the "good side" of North Korea and Kim Jong-un.
He was sentenced two months later to 15 years of hard labour for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel, North Korea state media said.
Meanwhile, Mr. Rodman's agent, Chris Volo, took partial credit for pressuring the North Koreans into releasing Warmbier. "Some good things came out of this trip".
The commentary talked about how Trump might "launch a preemptive strike on North Korea to distract from domestic political problems" and used the example of how Bill Clinton launched a military attack on Iraq while being investigated for his sex scandal.
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