A year after President Park Geun-hye announced her so-called Dresden Initiative aimed at improving inter-Korean ties, North Korea has denounced Seoul’s positive assessment of what the measures have produced.

The Rodong Sinmun, the daily newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, on Tuesday labeled the assessment a “clumsy play on words,” which sought to avoid responsibility for strained inter-Korean relations.

The daily claimed that the reason South-North ties are near collapse is because South Korean authorities colluded with outside forces, seeking to crush the North.

The paper said the Dresden Initiative is a declaration of confrontation aimed at unifying the two Koreas through the South’s absorption of the North.
 
The report threatened that if the South, with its toadyism toward the U.S., pursues such unification, South-North ties cannot be improved and a nuclear disaster will be cast over the South Korean people.