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          North Korea Releases Verbal Attack on South Korean President

   by VOA News

   North Korea on Friday launched a verbal attack on South Korean
   President Park Geun-hye in response to her participation last week in a
   U.S.-hosted nuclear summit in Washington.

   A spokesman for Pyongyang's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of
   Korea said Friday that Park is a "matchless evil woman" who has
   "increased the danger of a war" on the Korean Peninsula.

   South Korea's government responded sharply, warning North Korea against
   "slandering" its leaders "with unspeakable vulgar language," said Park
   Soo-jin, deputy spokeswoman for the South Korean Unification Ministry.

   Last week's nuclear summit focused on the rising tensions between the
   two Koreas since North Korea conducted a nuclear test in January and
   followed it with a long-range rocket launch a month later.

   On Tuesday South Korea said it has concluded that North Korea is now
   capable of mounting a nuclear warhead on its medium-range missiles.

   A South Korean official said Seoul believes North Korea has
   "accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount it on a
   Rodong missile." The official said Seoul has no evidence that North
   Korea had actually deployed such a nuclear-tipped missile, but the new
   assessment was the first direct acknowledgement of the North's growing
   nuclear prowess.

   The South Korean assessment of the North's nuclear missile capability
   came as a U.S. think tank, the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins
   University, said that recent satellite images of North Korea's main
   nuclear complex show suspicious activity that could indicate it is
   re-processing plutonium for additional nuclear bombs.

   North Korea has carried out four nuclear tests - the most recent in
   early January - and test-fired missiles in defiance of sanctions
   against such tests imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
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