S.Korean president warns isolation against DPRK's provocations

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday warned isolation and self-destruction against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its reckless provocations.

Park said at a meeting with consultants of the National Unification Advisory Council that the DPRK should realize a fact that reckless provocations would end up complete isolation and self-destruction.

If the DPRK conducts additional nuclear tests, the South Korean government will tackle it more sternly with the international community, Park said.

Her comments came after Pyongyang test-fired two missiles, which were believed to be intermediate-range Musudan ballistic missiles. One of the two test-launches was estimated to have succeeded as it flew about 400 km, near a required distance to be considered successful.

The president said that Seoul has been creating an environment, in which the DPRK regime has no choice but to realize a fact that there is no future without giving up nuclear programs and return to a path of change in cooperation with the international society.

Park criticized the DPRK for walking a way of isolation and provocations that put itself in danger while claiming that it is a nuclear state after nuclear tests and missile launches.

Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, followed by a launch in February of a long-range rocket, which was condemned as a disguised test of ballistic missile technology.

The South Korean leader said the DPRK's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles are a grave provocation rattling peace in the world, Northeast Asia and the Korean peninsula. Endit