The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland, a North Korean propaganda organization targeting South Korea,
released a statement today attacking Seoul-based “conservative media,”
including Daily NK, for slandering both the country’s system and leader Kim Jong Eun.
The article, “Flagrant Slander of Our Supreme Dignity and
System,” or, in English, “CPRK Secretariat Blasts Smear Campaign of S. Korean
Regime against DPRK,” was published by Rodong Sinmun on page 6, and by Chosun
Central News Agency (KCNA).
The English translation of the KCNA version declared, “Daily
NK, Chosun Ilbo and other wicked conservative media made such intolerable
reckless behavior as daring slander the field guidance given by the supreme
leadership of the DPRK to the baby home and orphanage and the election of
deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly.” (sic)
The aggressively worded piece further criticized the
“malicious” South Korean media for negatively characterizing North Korea’s
policy of prioritizing sports and physical education, declared one of President
Park Geun Hye’s overseas trips to be a “junket,” called defectors as a group “human
scum,” and warned of a “most shameful fate” for the South Korean authorities.
