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Sat, August 20, 2022 | 01:45
N. Korea denounces S. Korea's dialogue offer as 'cunning ploy'
北, 대화 제의 사실상 거부…"교활한 술책" 비난
Posted : 2013-04-14 15:44
Updated : 2013-04-14 15:44
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North Korea on Sunday denounced an offer of dialogue by South Korean President Park Geun-hye to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula as a "cunning ploy," implicitly rejecting any dialogue with Seoul for the time being.


The North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea made the remarks days after Park offered to engage in dialogue with Pyongyang, saying she was willing to "activate the trust-building process" on the peninsula.

Park offered talks as operations at an inter-Korean industrial park in the North's border city of Kaesong grounded to a halt last week. Pyongyang banned South Korean managers from entering the park on April 3 amid sky-high tensions over weeks of warlike threats from North Korea.

The offer of dialogue is "a cunning ploy to hide the South's policy of confrontation and mislead its responsibility for putting the Kaesong Industrial Complex into a crisis," said a spokesman for the North's committee in an article carried by the North's state news agency.

The North's committee also described the South's offer of dialogue as an "empty shell," but stressed that it will be up to South Korea whether or not inter-Korean dialogue could happen in the future.




北, 대화 제의 사실상 거부…"교활한 술책" 비난

북한이 14일 우리 정부의 대화 제의를 사실상 거부했다.

    북한의 대남기구인 조국평화통일위원회(조평통) 대변인은 이날 정부의 대화 제의를 '개성공업지구를 위기에 몰아넣은 저들의 범죄적 죄행을 꼬리자르기 하고 내외여론을 오도하며 대결적 정체를 가리우기 위한 교활한 술책'이라고 비난했다.

    조평통 대변인은 이날 북한 조선중앙통신사 기자의 질문에 이같이 밝히고 '북침핵전쟁 연습과 동족대결모략책동에 매달려온 자들이 사죄나 책임에 대한 말한마디 없이 대화를 운운한 것은 너무도 철면피한 행위'라면서 '대화 제의라는 것을 들여다보아도 아무 내용이 없는 빈 껍데기에 불과하다'고 주장했다.

    대변인은 '남조선 집권자와 통일부 수장이라는 자가 대화 제의를 하면서 (상)대방에 대해 '도발'이니 '핵포기'니 '변화'니 '악순환의 반복'이니 하는 독기어린 망발을 떠들어댄 것은 그들이 적대의식과 대결적 속심을 버리지 않았다는 것을 여실히 보여준다'고 밝혔다.

    대변인은 이어 '북남대화는 장난이나 놀음(놀이)이 아니며 말싸움판은 더더욱 아니다. 그런 대화는 무의미하며 안 하기보다도 못하다'며 '남조선 당국이 진정으로 대화 의지가 있다면 말장난을 할 것이 아니라 근본적인 대결자세부터 버려야 한다'고 강조했다.

    박근혜 대통령은 지난 11일 오후 청와대에서 국회 외교통일위·국방위 소속 새누리당 의원들과 만찬 자리에서 '북한과 대화할 것'이라고 밝히며 '한반도 신뢰 프로세스는 반드시 가동돼야 한다. 상황이 어렵더라도 '프로세스'이므로 항상 진행되는 것'이라고 말했다.

    이에 앞서 류길재 통일부 장관도 같은날 발표한 '성명'에서 '개성공단 정상화는 대화를 통해 해결돼야 한다'며 '이와 관련 북측이 제기하는 사안을 논의하기 위해서라도 북한 당국은 대화의 장으로 나오길 바란다'고 밝혔다.
 
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