North Korea calls South's government deformed and stupid amid snowballing scandal

North Korea is joyfully jumping into a bizarre political scandal rocking Seoul, calling it the inevitable result of a corrupt regime and saying the administration of South Korean President Park Geun-hye is “the most deformed, abnormal and stupid in contemporary society.”

Pyongyang, while allowing none of its media the freedom to point criticism at its own leadership, has wasted no opportunity to lambaste Park in the harshest ways it can.

The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Monday called the scandal a “hideous power-backed corruption case unprecedented in South Korean history.”

Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling party, added the “deformed, abnormal and stupid” characterisation and, just for good measure, called Park a “colonial stooge”.

The scandal, one of the biggest to rock the South in recent years, involves allegations that Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter and longtime associate of the president who holds no official office, may have played a large and inappropriate role in government affairs and personally benefited from those ties. Additional reports allege she misused money from non-profit organisations after pressuring businesses into donations.