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North Korea has started rhetorical attacks on the new, conservative South Korean government. The North Korean Committee for the Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland in a statement called the new government ¡°a successor to a previous authoritarian regime that shocked other countries with its fascist rule and trampled the human rights of South Koreans.¡±
Condemning South Korea¡¯s recent call on the North at a UN human rights session in Geneva to improve its human rights record, the North Korean committee said the South¡¯s conservative ruling forces ¡°fabricated claims¡± that the North violates human rights and made an issue out of it. It said that the South's latest move ¡°went against the spirit of the 2000 Joint Statement issued by former president Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and ¡°runs counter to the atmosphere of reconciliation between the two Koreas.¡±
It was the first time since President Lee Myung-bak¡¯s election that North Korea has referred to the new South Korean government as ¡°conservative¡± in an official statement. The committee said the South conducted ¡°massive nuclear war drills with the hostile U.S.¡± to target the North while making ¡°reckless remarks to slander and insult¡± the North. The committee added that the North will not forgive those who disregard inter-Korean agreements and find faults with its political system, which the committee called ¡°the dignity and life¡± of the communist country.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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