Let G=(V,E) be a simple graph with vertex set V(G)={v1,v2,…,vn} and edge set i3" class="mathmlsrc">i3.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0024379515006771&_rdoc=1&_issn=00243795&md5=01f78a8d28698c58f131b1a6ff787278" title="Click to view the MathML source">E(G). Let D(G) be the distance matrix of G. For a given nonnegative integer k, when n is sufficiently large with respect to k , we show that λn−k(D)≤−1, thereby solving a problem proposed by Lin et al. (2014) [8]. The distance Laplacian spectral radius of a connected graph G is the spectral radius of the distance Laplacian matrix of G, defined as