北, 박 대통령 원색 비난 “흉보기 좋아하는 시골 아낙네”

박근혜 대통령이 6박8일간의 프랑스.영국.벨기에 유럽연합 등 서유럽 순방을 마치고 9일 오전 경기도 성남시 서울공항에 도착, 취재진에 손을 흔들어 인사하고 있다. (연합뉴스)

북한의 대남기구 조국평화통일위원회(조평통)는 11일 박근혜 대통령이 최근 유럽 순방 기간 북한에 핵 포기와 인권 개선을 촉구한 데 대해 "반공화국 대결 망발"이라고 맹비난했다.

조평통 대변인은 이날 조선중앙통신 기자와의 문답을 통해 또다시 박 대통령을 '박근혜'로 지칭하며 이 같이 비난했다.

조평통 대변인은 이번 발언으로 앞서 박 대통령이 김정은 국방위원회 제1위원장 과의 정상회담 가능성을 언급한 것은 "순전히 위선이었으며 그의 속통에는 우리와 끝까지 대결하려는 흉심만 들어차 있다는 것을 여실히 보여주었다"라고 주장했다.

이어 "집에서 새는 바가지 들에 나가도 샌다고 명색이 대통령이라는 체면도 다 줴버리고 밖에 나가서까지 동족을 악랄하게 헐뜯는 박근혜야말로 제 망신인 줄 모르고 남을 흉보기 좋아하는 다사한 시골아낙네를 방불케 한다"라고 원색적으로 비난했다.

박 대통령은 유럽 순방 중이던 지난 8일 '한-EU 수교 50주년 공동선언'을 통해 북한에 핵포기와 인권 개선을 촉구했다.

이에 앞서 지난 2일 프랑스의 일간 르피가로지와의 인터뷰에서는 김 제1위원장과의 정상회담을 할 준비가 돼 있느냐는 질문을 받고 "남북관계의 발전이나 한반도 평화를 위해 필요하다면 언제라도 만날 수 있다는 입장을 갖고 있다"고 밝혔다.

N. Korea slams President Park for fueling inter-Korean tensions

North Korea slammed President Park Geun-hye Tuesday for fueling tensions with provocative anti-Pyongyang remarks made during her recent trip to Europe.

The North's Korean Central News Agency, citing a statement issued by an unidentified spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), referred to Park by name and accused her of being a hypocrite and only focused on maintaining a confrontational stance with the DPRK.

The DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.

During her recent trip to France, Britain and Belgium, Park, who has made "trust building" the cornerstone of her North Korean policy, called on the isolationist country to get rid of its nuclear weapons and improve human rights.

This call was issued in the joint declaration made last Friday marking the 50th anniversary of formal South Korea-European Union diplomatic relations.

The CPRK said such remarks are "ludicrous" and a shameful move to slander her fellow Koreans in the North.

"Park failed to see that by slandering others, she only shamed herself," said the organization in charge of carrying out all inter-Korean relations.

Pyongyang also said Park's remarks made in a interview with the French daily Le Figaro on her willingness to hold summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un showed the politician's duplicitous nature to weaken the North.

The report, moreover, said that Park's penchant for making speeches in foreign languages should be stopped.

The North has maintained the position that any mention of giving up its nuclear weapons program is a ploy to undermine the North. It has on numerous occasions made clear it will never give up its nuclear program.

On the North's latest outburst, an official from Seoul's unification ministry said Pyongyang really needs to abstain from making derogatory comments against the president.

"The North constantly mentions the two Koreas are of one, yet they continue to lash out at the South Korean leader," he said.

The official, who declined to be identified, pointed out that the North's actions are both embarrassing and disgraceful.

Touching on the North's stance on the nuclear program, the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said Monday that the communist country will never take the first step to dismantle its nuclear deterrence regardless of outside demands.

It said Pyongyang is in no hurry to resolve outstanding issues or is fearful of the outside world, indicating that the country is not interested in returning to the six-party talks, aimed at ending its nuclear program, if it must first declare it willingness to give up its weapons of mass destruction.

Seoul and Washington, on the other hand, said the North needs to formally declare its adherence to the Sept. 19 Joint Statement made in 2005, that obliges the North to move forward with "verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner." (Yonhap News)