North Korea Directly Criticizes Minister Kwon Young-se... Mocking Unification Ministry as 'Rice Cooker Ministry' and 'Fratricidal Confrontation Ministry'

External Propaganda Media: "Bold Initiative is a Bold Delusion... Like a Loach Eating a Dragon's Roar"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] North Korean media has openly criticized Unification Minister Kwon Young-se, who is demanding dialogue with North Korea while emphasizing the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's denuclearization roadmap for the Korean Peninsula, the "Bold Initiative," and has mocked the Ministry of Unification.

The external propaganda outlet Echo of Unification on the 14th published an article titled "Bold Delusion," written by Choi Jun-young, a researcher at the Institute for National Reunification under the Workers' Party United Front Department, stating, "The fool reveals himself, and the puppet Unification Minister Kwon Young-se is disgracefully playing around, receiving the ridicule and contempt of all people." The Ministry of Unification was disparaged as the "Rice Pot Ministry" and the "Ministry of Fratricidal Confrontation."

The outlet described Minister Kwon's recent calls for North Korea's response to the Bold Initiative at events such as the 2022 Korean Peninsula International Peace Forum as "floundering," adding, "This is a senseless rant originating from the vulgar mindset of a treacherous faction that is so confused it does not know whether the sun or the earth revolves," and condemned it as "the nonsense of a confrontation addict, an unattainable pipe dream."

It further pointed out, "The Bold Initiative itself is a copy of Lee Myung-bak's 'Denuclearization, Openness, 3,000,' which was long ago thrown into the dustbin of history amid public criticism and rejection due to its unscientific and absurd nature."

Moreover, it sneered, "They just rearranged the order and added a few items to Lee Myung-bak's anti-North Korea policy, copied it, and then advertised it with the term 'bold'?this is like an eel country trying to act like a dragon; isn't this literally a 'bold delusion'?"

It then asserted, "The scoundrels of the Ministry of Fratricidal Confrontation and the Rice Pot Ministry will only bring disgrace upon themselves if they do not awaken from their outdated and futile pipe dreams and continue to babble only about the 'Bold Initiative' like sleep talk."

While North Korea has previously mentioned Minister Kwon alongside other politicians in articles covering the April presidential transition committee and recent criticisms of the ruling People Power Party, this is the first time it has criticized him as the Minister of Unification.

Minister Kwon proposed an official-level meeting to resolve separated families on the 8th and sent a notification to Ri Son-gwon, head of North Korea's Workers' Party United Front Department, but the report did not mention this. North Korea has yet to respond to the notification as of this date.

A Ministry of Unification official stated, "We have no position on North Korean propaganda media reports other than official North Korean media reports and statements from key figures," maintaining their principle.

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