North Korea's state media continues to criticize South Korea despite President Park Geun-hye's recent conciliatory proposals to Pyongyang.
The ruling Workers' Party gazette Rodong Sinmun on Sunday carried the reactions of North Korean citizens, military officers, and North Korean Red Cross and trade union officials to the statements that Park made during her state trip to Germany.
The paper cited a military officer as blaming Park for, what he called, "embarrassing tricks she lined up about unification, co-prosperity and [inter-Korean] exchanges." The officer was also cited as referring the South Korean president by her name.
The officer also said North Koreans know what the ulterior motives are behind Park’s conciliatory gestures and accused her of attempting to harm his country.
In the eastern German city of Dresden Friday, Park suggested inter-Korean projects to develop infrastructure in the North, such as a composite agricultural complex. She also proposed ways to resolve humanitarian issues and help close cultural gaps for the people divided for almost 70 years.
The gazette also hurled vitriol over the South's recent capture and repatriation of a North Korean fishing boat. The South Korean military returned the wayward North Korean fishing boat six hours after it crossed the Northern Limit Line between the two Koreas last week.