NKorea criticizes SKorea prez's 'swish of skirt'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

NKorea criticizes SKorea prez's 'swish of skirt'

AP foreign, Wednesday March 13 2013

HYUNG-JIN KIM

Associated Press= SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist jab. The body that controls North Korea's military complained Wednesday about the "venomous swish" of her skirt.

But despite that swipe, and a continuing torrent of rhetoric from Pyongyang threatening nuclear war and other mayhem, President Park Geun-hye is sticking by her campaign vow to reach out to North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, and to send the country much-needed humanitarian aid.

Public frustration with the last five years of North-South relations, which saw North Korean nuclear tests, long-range rocket launches and attacks that left dozens of South Koreans dead, is a big part of the reason Park is trying to build trust with Pyongyang, even as she and South Korea's military promise to respond forcefully to any possible attack from the North.

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"This frenzy kicked up by the South Korean warmongers is in no way irrelevant with the venomous swish of skirt made by the one who again occupies" the presidential Blue House, the North Korean spokesman said in a statement. It was the first government criticism of Park to be reported by major North Korean media since her Dec. 19 election.

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[davidpdx]

1. Pure sexism on the part of North Korea

I think they are shocked that South Korea elected a woman president. Personally I don't like her because she's conservative and her father was a brutal dictator who ruled the country from 1963 until the late 70s. Obviously they feel threatened by her.