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Thu, 10/02/2008 - 09:59
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N. Korea lashes out at Seoul's chief unification policy researcher
By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lashed out Wednesday at the new head of South Korea's state think tank on inter-Korean reunification policy, calling him an "extremely vicious" anti-North Korean hysteric for his recent skeptical remarks about resuming dialogue.
Suh Jae-jean, president of the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU),
sparked controversy here by saying in a university forum late last month that it
is worthless to have a dialogue with such an "abnormal and wrong regime" like
Pyongyang.
Suh also said he felt news reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is ailing
have brought the Koreas closer to reunification.
"The thoughtless confrontational remarks by Suh, an anti-DPRK hysteric, should
draw curses and denunciation from the Korean nation. His words are tantamount to
a deliberate provocation aimed at driving already catastrophic North-South
relations to an end," said Uriminjokkiri (Together With Our People), Pyongyang's
official Web site, in a commentary monitored here.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of
North Korea.
The commentary also lambasted Seoul's conservative President Lee Myung-bak,
claiming he was speaking through Suh.
"The Lee Myung-bak Group's confrontational anti-reunification tactics have
reached their limit, as seen by (Lee's) push to merge with the North (under
capitalism) using a hysteric like Suh in the forefront," the site said.
"We will thoroughly take into account Suh's extremely vicious provocative
behavior and make him pay the price by any means necessary," it warned.
Relations between the Koreas have worsened since Lee took office in February,
pledging to halt the investment dollars and free aid that flowed to North Korea
under a decade of liberal governance unless the communist state gives up its
nuclear weapons.
Lee later softened his stance, but relations further degenerated after a South
Korean woman was shot dead by a North Korean soldier while she was visiting the
country's Mount Geumgang resort in early July.
Pyongyang has refused to apologize or aid in the investigation of the shooting,
and maintains that the woman was responsible for her death because she wandered
into restricted military zone.
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea lashed out Wednesday at the new head of South Korea's state think tank on inter-Korean reunification policy, calling him an "extremely vicious" anti-North Korean hysteric for his recent skeptical remarks about resuming dialogue.
Suh Jae-jean, president of the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU),
sparked controversy here by saying in a university forum late last month that it
is worthless to have a dialogue with such an "abnormal and wrong regime" like
Pyongyang.
Suh also said he felt news reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is ailing
have brought the Koreas closer to reunification.
"The thoughtless confrontational remarks by Suh, an anti-DPRK hysteric, should
draw curses and denunciation from the Korean nation. His words are tantamount to
a deliberate provocation aimed at driving already catastrophic North-South
relations to an end," said Uriminjokkiri (Together With Our People), Pyongyang's
official Web site, in a commentary monitored here.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of
North Korea.
The commentary also lambasted Seoul's conservative President Lee Myung-bak,
claiming he was speaking through Suh.
"The Lee Myung-bak Group's confrontational anti-reunification tactics have
reached their limit, as seen by (Lee's) push to merge with the North (under
capitalism) using a hysteric like Suh in the forefront," the site said.
"We will thoroughly take into account Suh's extremely vicious provocative
behavior and make him pay the price by any means necessary," it warned.
Relations between the Koreas have worsened since Lee took office in February,
pledging to halt the investment dollars and free aid that flowed to North Korea
under a decade of liberal governance unless the communist state gives up its
nuclear weapons.
Lee later softened his stance, but relations further degenerated after a South
Korean woman was shot dead by a North Korean soldier while she was visiting the
country's Mount Geumgang resort in early July.
Pyongyang has refused to apologize or aid in the investigation of the shooting,
and maintains that the woman was responsible for her death because she wandered
into restricted military zone.
