South Korea raps Pyongyang for calling President Park a ‘crazy bitch’ and ‘senile’

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on February 16, 2016. Park called for ‘courage’ in standing up to North Korea. Photo: AFP

Published: 5:16pm, 21 Feb 2016Updated: 10:29pm, 21 Feb 2016

South Korea urged North Korea yesterday to stop its “vulgar” personal attacks on President Park Geun-hye after Pyongyang described her as a “crazy old bitch” in its latest diatribe.

“We express strong regret over ... the North’s personal attacks that targeted our head of state with such base, vulgar language,” Seoul’s unification ministry said. “The North should ... immediately stop such vulgar attacks.”

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Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the North’s ruling communist party, earlier slammed the South’s conservative leader for seeking stronger sanctions against Pyongyang following its nuclear and missile tests.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye presides over a meeting of the National Security Council as North Korea launched a long-range rocket. Photo: EPA

Headlines in the full-page coverage described Park, 64, as a “murderous devil” and “senile old woman” seeking to topple the North’s government with her recent moves to punish Pyongyang.

“This tailless crazy old bitch called Park Geun-hye is heaping further misery on our people, already suffering from the tragedy of division,” one article said.

The North earlier this month launched a satellite into orbit in what many saw as a disguised test of a long-range ballistic missile banned under UN resolutions.