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S. Korea regrets DPRK's blast of Park, threats of dropping family reunion

Xinhua, September 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korea on Wednesday expressed strong regret over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) denouncing South Korean President Park Geun-hye and threatening to cancel reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

President Park said during her speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday (local time) that the DPRK should drop its adherence to nuclear weapons and walk a path of economic development with reform and openness.

The DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea ( CPRK) said Tuesday that Park blatantly disclosed her ambitions to achieve absorption reunification with the DPRK by drawing in foreign influence, noting that the family reunion was placed in danger.

South Korea and the DPRK have agreed to hold the family reunion event from Oct. 20 to 26 in the scenic resort of Mount Kumgang in southeastern DPRK.

Seoul's unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told a regular press briefing that it was very regrettable for Pyongyang to do so.

Jeong urged the DPRK to sincerely implement the Aug. 25 agreement.

Top military advisors to President Park and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un met in August at the truce village of Panmunjom to de- escalate military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, caused by landmine blasts and exchange of fires in border areas.

After marathon talks, the two sides agreed to withdraw military alert and hold an inter-governmental dialogue in Seoul or Pyongyang at an earliest possible date. They also agreed to hold the family reunion event. Endi