Even North Korean Buddhist Circles Criticize South Korea: "May All the Torments of Hell Befall the Evil Spirits"

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President Moon Jae-in is having lunch with Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea, at Okryugwan in Pyongyang on September 19, 2018.

North Korea, which even deployed the Okryugwan head chef to slander President Moon Jae-in, is raising the level of its criticism against South Korea day by day by involving not only the arts and physical education sectors but also the religious community.

Song Nam-ho, coach of the Taekwondo team of the Korean Taekwondo Committee, wrote in an article titled "Sharpening the Punishing Hand Sword" published on the 16th in North Korea's external propaganda media Chosun Today, targeting South Korean authorities and defectors, "Our Taekwondo instructors and athletes are burning their hearts with the single-minded desire for revenge to deliver stern iron punishment to the South Korean authorities who dared to touch our most sacred dignity, which is more precious than life itself, and the human garbage defectors who sent filthy scraps of filth to our sacred territory."

Coach Song emphasized, "The sight of Taekwondo coaches and athletes sweating profusely in training with a solemn determination to smash the heads of the national traitors who are frantically trying to block our sun of life and destiny with iron fists is truly reminiscent of flesh-and-blood warriors entering a fierce battlefield," adding, "All instructors and athletes in our team are accelerating their training with the mindset of eradicating the traitorous scum with iron fists."

The religious community also joined in the criticism against the South.

Ri Myong-un, who identified himself as a member of the Youth Committee of the National Believers' Association of the Korean Buddhist Federation, continued anti-South hate speech in an article titled "We Must Inflict Terrible Punishment on the Asura Gang" published on the 16th in the publication Meori.

He said, "Our Buddhist followers unanimously feel that the human garbage who have gone mad with inter-Korean confrontation must be sent immediately to the hell of utter destruction in this world, not the afterlife, and their disgusting tongues that shamelessly wag must be completely pulled out."

Ri Myong-un added, "Not only the human garbage but also the South Korean authorities who chant 'improvement of relations and cooperation' in front but then turn around to sabotage inter-Korean relations can never be forgiven," emphasizing, "Merciless iron punishment must be inflicted on the Asura gang."

Kim Yong-ho, head of the Central Committee of the Korean Buddhist Federation, targeted South Korean authorities and defectors in an article published on the 15th, stating, "Seosan Dae-sa once said that destroying evil is not killing," and claimed, "We will impose all the torments of hell on the evil demons."

He said, "Our Buddhists sternly condemn the heinous acts of the ugly human garbage and the South Korean authorities who tried to axe the most sacred spiritual pillar of our people, calling it an atrocity that would even make the Asura blush," adding, "The filthy bodies of those defiled by evil deeds will be dragged through the scorching flames of the eight hot hells and the freezing cold of the ice mountain in the eight cold hells, and finally to the Avici Hell, the deepest and most painful of the eight hells, where they will fully experience all the sufferings existing in the universe."

A protest rally against the distribution of leaflets to North Korea by cadres and members of the North Korean Socialist Women's Union (Yeo-maeng) was held on the 9th in front of the Sincheon Museum in South Hwanghae Province, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 10th.

Jung Hak-jun, secretary-general of the Korean Religious Council, also wrote in Meori, "Currently, every religious denomination and religious person in the Republic is trembling with rage at the heinous crimes of human filth and is preparing the will to judge the main perpetrators and accomplices of this incident in the name of justice," asserting, "All denominations and religious persons in the northern half of the Republic will rise resolutely in the holy war of justice to inflict merciless punishment on the traitors and garbage who have maliciously engaged in anti-Republic hostile acts."

Meanwhile, North Korea recently used the Okryugwan head chef to criticize President Moon Jae-in. On the 13th, Okryugwan head chef Oh Su-bong hurled abusive remarks at President Moon, saying, "When he came to Pyongyang and ate the famous Okryugwan noodles, he acted as if he was going to do something big, but after returning, he has done absolutely nothing." President Moon visited Pyongyang on September 19, 2018, and had lunch with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and his wife at Okryugwan.

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