adminKaesong Industrial Complex into crisis, mislead public opinion inside and outside, and hide the policy of confrontation,” a spokesman at the DPRK’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in an interview with the official KCNA news agency.
The spokesman described the dialogue offer as “blushless acts” and “empty shell,” denouncing that South Korea has never given any apology for the joint military drills between Seoul and Washington. He also pointed out the words such as “provocation” and “repeated vicious cycle” commented by South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae.
President Park said last Tuesday that “until when should we repeat this endless vicious cycle of (the DPRK’s) creating crisis before compromising and aid, and creating crisis again before compromising and aid.” Her comments came after the DPRK decided to pull out all its workers from the joint industrial park at the western border town of Kaesong.
Park said at a dinner meeting with ruling party lawmakers on Thursday that Seoul will push for dialogue. On the same day, Unification Minister Ryoo said in a formal statement that the normalisation of the Kaesong complex should be made through dialogue, urging Pyongyang to “come to the dialogue table.”
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday called on Pyongyang to go back to the negotiating table as he told Japan the United States would protect it from North Korea’s threats.
Following a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, where Patriot missiles have been deployed in anticipation of a missile launch by the North, Kerry pledged the US would backstop its ally.
“The United States is fully committed to the defence of Japan,” Kerry told a joint press conference with Kishida.
Kerry’s comments came after the Korean Central News Agency said Friday any attempt by Japan to shoot down a missile would result in war that would see Japan “consumed in nuclear flames”. — Xinhua.
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