North Korean media blasted South Korea's Presidential Preparatory Committee for Unification and its move to establish a charter on unification. The criticism comes one day after the committee proposed minister-level talks between the two Koreas next month.
 
The Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of North Korea’s Workers’ Party, said Tuesday that South Korea formed the committee to maneuver confrontation with the North. It added that the committee's plan to establish a unification charter is a useless struggle before a pitiful downfall and that a unification of the two regimes is a pipe dream.
 
The paper went on to say that the unification charter's goal is to hurt North Korea's socialist institution and to permanently plant America's colonial rule on the Korean Peninsula. It said the charter will only intensify mistrust and conflict among the Korean people, which will only lead to war.
 
The paper also criticized President Park Geun-hye, noting that it was South Korea's leader who devised the charter.
 
A unification ministry official said the more the North denounces the committee, the more the South Korean government must meet North Korean officials and explain that the committee doesn't aim to absorb the North.