North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun has come out swinging against Park
Geun Hye’s idea of unification as a “jackpot,” deeming it “anti-unification” and a “heinous doctrine of confrontation.”
In a piece published by the Rodong Sinmun on the 8th
entitled, “Dissecting Park Geun Hye’s Theory of Unification as a Jackpot,” it
was alleged the idea “runs counter to the times as well as the goals of the people,
who hope for peaceful unification and joint prosperity.”
“This year, [North Korea’s] New Year’s Address put forward
reasonable and practical suggestions that showed sincerity and tolerance, but
[the South] turned its back. Park
Geun Hye’s idea of unification as a ‘jackpot’ is in fact anti-unification; it seeks
unification through absorption while at the same time bragging about
unification under a liberal democracy,” the piece said.
Such a policy “can only result in the
calamity of war,” it was added.
The choice of the term “jackpot” was similarly criticized for implying
“fortune.” According to the North, the term is used in gambling by “charlatans, traders and
good-for-nothings who hate work and like things for free.”
