North Korea Calls the Establishment of the 'Bold Initiative' Organization a "Desperate Act of the Rice Bowl Department"

Ministry of Unification Establishes Future Unification Strategy Planning Unit Directly Under Minister
"A Desperate Measure to Avoid Criticism of Being Merely a Figurehead"

Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hee-jun] North Korea has criticized the Ministry of Unification's organizational restructuring as a "desperate struggle of a rice bowl ministry." The Ministry of Unification recently established the Unification Future Strategy Planning Group directly under the minister to systematically advance the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's denuclearization roadmap, the "Bold Initiative."

On the 23rd, North Korea's external propaganda outlet, Tongil-ui Mea-ri, stated, "The puppet Ministry of Unification is busy beating the drum of confrontation by creating a new 'Unification Future Strategy Planning Group' to realize Yoon Seok-yeol's 'Bold Initiative' and engaging in organizational restructuring games."

It continued, "The puppet Ministry of Unification is making a fuss like a drummer and a gong player to avoid criticism that it has become a useless organization with no value in the current disastrous state of inter-Korean relations, merely eating rice bowls. This is an impromptu measure. By continuing to glorify and publicize the already bankrupt 'Bold Initiative,' they are trying to maintain their presence and further intensify anti-Republic confrontation schemes, revealing their impure intentions," mocking the ministry.

Furthermore, it emphasized, "This 'confrontation ministry,' this 'rice bowl ministry,' which is driving inter-Korean relations to the worst catastrophe, will not escape the judgment of South Korean public opinion."

The Ministry of Unification carried out organizational restructuring earlier this month. The core of this is the establishment of the Unification Future Strategy Planning Group. This organization oversees the planning and formulation of unification future strategies and serves as the control tower for the Bold Initiative. It is expected to coordinate future private cooperation systems, related ministries, and international cooperation.

Although inter-Korean relations are currently frozen, the Ministry of Unification explained that the organization was restructured to enable efficient policy implementation should the atmosphere change.

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