After he urged efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula in a speech in the United States, North Korea has referred to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung as a “confrontation maniac.”
Lee stated in a statement following a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Monday that denuclearization was necessary to “promote the South Korea-US alliance in a “global context” and that it was essential to achieving a permanent peace between the Koreas.
The South Korean leader was attacked by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday, claiming that his speech had revealed his “true colors as a hypocrite to the entire world.”
In an unsigned commentary, the KCNA used the acronyms for South Korea and North Korea’s official names to demonstrate that the ROK’s [Republic of Korea’s] scheme for confrontation with the DPRK]Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] can never change.
Lee Jae-myung, who serves as Pyongyang’s spokesperson, “also gave unwavering evidence that his remarks about “denuclearization” are a pure sophism,” according to the KCNA, which operates as a spokesperson for the country.
We once more remind him of the unavoidable fact that our position as a nuclear weapons state accurately reflects the changing nature of the world security dynamics and the hostile threat from outside.
According to the KCNA, denuclearization is already “extinct theoretically, practically, and physically,” and Lee’s vision is “less than a naive dream, like trying to catch a cloud floating in the sky.”
After years of strained inter-Korean ties under his conservative predecessor, the impeached ex-President Yoon Suk-yeol, Lee, who took office in June, has pledged to improve relations with Pyongyang.
However, North Korea has repeatedly rejected those efforts.
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, lambasted South Korean efforts to calm them down in a scathing statement earlier this month, saying, “We do not care about them and are not interested in them.”
Source: Aljazeera
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