North Korea calls South's leader 'psychopath' over missile row | Inquirer News

North Korea calls South’s leader ‘psychopath’ over missile row

/ 09:56 AM August 17, 2016

South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (FILE PHOTO/Baek Seung-ryul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (FILE PHOTO/Baek Seung-ryul/Yonhap via AP)

SEOUL—North Korea on Wednesday labelled South Korean President Park Geun-Hye a “psychopath” after she made a speech slamming Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions and defending the deployment of a US anti-missile system.

In her televised address on Monday, Park had stressed that deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system was an act of “self-defense” in response to the North’s expanding nuclear weapons program.

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A spokesman for the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country said Park’s argument was “preposterous” and unfounded.

“This is just a lame excuse and she should know that no one will be taken in by such sophism of a puppet that can do nothing without an approval of her US master,” the spokesman said.

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“This is no more than nonsense talked by a psychopath,” he added in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.

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North Korea has threatened to take “physical action” against the THAAD deployment, saying any South Korean ports and airfields hosting US military hardware would become a target.

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Beijing is also opposed to the move, seeing it as a US bid to flex its military muscle in the region and undermine China’s own missile capabilities.

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US Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, addressed those concerns during talks on Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng in Beijing.

THAAD is “not a threat in any way to China,” Milley told Li according to a US Army statement.

Deploying the system “is a defensive measure to protect South Koreans and Americans from the North Korean ballistic missile threat,” he added.

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Milley was due to hold talks with top South Korean military officials in Seoul on Wednesday.

TAGS: Conflict, Kim Jong-Un, Missile, North Korea, Park Geun-Hye, psychopath, South korea, THAAD, United States

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