North Korea slams Obama-Park's 'despicable' meeting of servant and master

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye’s recent summit with Barack Obama was a “despicable” meeting of servant and master, North Korea said on Friday in its first reaction to the talks in Washington.

In a highly personal warning, a spokesman for the state body responsible for inter-Korean ties said Park would do well to remember the “miserable end” met by her pro-US father, the late dictator Park Chung-Hee.

Park Chung-Hee, who ruled South Korea with an iron fist from 1961-79, was assassinated by his national intelligence chief.

Park’s May 6-9 trip to the United States, which included a summit with the US president, was widely viewed as a success, with the two leaders united in a vow of offering no concessions in dealing with Pyongyang.

Park also addressed a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday, stressing that North Korea had to give up its nuclear weapons while also proposing small peace steps after months of sky-high tensions.

But the spokesman for the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, dismissed the visit as a “junket” and a “despicable sycophantic trip to please her master ... and tighten the nexus against” North Korea.