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North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (NKPRF) has poured fresh criticism upon South Korea’s “puppet government,” accusing it of scheming to “play [North Korea and China] off against each other” by fabricating a video report.
In a vitriolic article released on the 22nd and purporting to be from the secretariat of the propaganda organ, it declared, “On the 18th, the puppet TV broadcast ‘Morning News’ released a video fabricated to show a ‘massive protest’ held in China against our nuclear test.”
“What the puppets are trying to do is collude with the U.S. to bring about some kind of trouble in our relationship with China, and to abuse that to create a UN ‘sanctions resolution’ and cause the destruction of the Republic,” it proclaimed.
According to the piece, the demonstration video could not have been made recently in frigid Shenyang, as claimed, due to the apparent color in surrounding trees and short sleeves being worn by the participants.
“In the end, the puppet regime faked a protest against our nuclear test using film of a different demonstration in China sometime in the past,” it asserted.
However, the North Korean piece neither explained what South Korean media outlet it was referring to nor which ‘Morning News’ program.
Meanwhile, domestic South Korean and international media reports, many citing the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo, claim that there have been a few relatively modest anti-nuclear protests against North Korea in Chinese cities including Harbin and Hefei in recent days.
