KCNA Commentary Ridicules Park Geun Hye Group's Talk about Efficiency of "Sanctions against DPRK"

Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- These days the south Korean puppet authorities are claiming as if their "sanctions against the north" were proving effective, inviting sneers from all people. The Park Geun Hye group's vociferous talk about effectiveness of "sanctions" is nothing but fraud and red herring. It is none other than the south Korean puppet authorities who were driven into a tight corner and quagmire owing to their "sanctions against the north". According to the south Korean economic experts, direct and indirect damage done to south Korea by the collapse of north-south economic cooperation since the Park's regime emerged ran into about tens of billions of US dollars. South Korea has to shoulder the financial burden of 25 billion US dollars owing to the "shuttle diplomacy on pro-north countries". Even a U.S. credit appreciation company and world biggest investment and banking company said that Park Geun Hye brought an exorbitant amount of damage in the economic field of south Korea and exercised a negative influence on creditability by shutting down the Kaesong Industrial Zone, urging foreigners to restrain investment in south Korea. As seen above, the south Korean authorities' "unprecedented sanctions against the north" bring political and economic crisis to south Korea. The south Korean authorities are sadly mistaken if they calculate they can cover up their miserable position and realize the ambition for escalating the confrontation with the compatriots in the north by spreading the above-said fiction. Confrontation with the compatriots in the north only leads to treachery and self-destruction. -0-