The South Korean government says it is not worth responding to each blunt denouncement North Korea has made against President Park Geun-hye’s speech at the UN General Assembly last week.
 
Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol said in a news briefing Monday that the North is clearly showing who it really is through the recent statements.
 
Regarding the latest remarks by North Korean Ambassador to the UN Ja Song-nam that there is no possibility of dialogue in the foreseeable future between the two Koreas, the ministry spokesman said the South will keep the door open to inter-Korean dialogue. He again urged Pyongyang to discuss all pending inter-Korean issues face-to-face.
 
Lim, however, said that Seoul has no plan to run a separate channel and make a special proposal to bring Pyongyang back to holding dialogue.

In a commentary on Sunday, North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun strongly criticized President Park Geun-hye’s speech last week at the U.N. General Assembly. The commentary said that the speech is causing a catastrophe and threatened that Park and her gang will certainly pay for declaring confrontation.

The North also blasted Park’s UN speech Friday and Saturday in statements by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and the National Defense Commission.