North Korea Issues Sexist Tirade Against South Korean Leader
North Korea isn't exactly known for its light touch: It has referred to its foes as a "rat-like group of bastards," a "shameless political dwarf" and even a "swish of skirt."
That aforementioned "swish of skirt" is the target of North Korea's latest diatribe.
The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, which is the body tasked with uniting the two countries, called South Korean President Park Guen-hye a "capricious whore who asks her fancy man to do harm to other person while providing sex to him." The "fancy man" in question: President Obama, who visited ally South Korea last week for two days.
The comments were reported by KCNA, North Korea's official news agency.
The story went on to call Park a "dirty comfort woman for the U.S. and despicable prostitute selling off the nation." That epithet is likely to anger many South Koreans because of the Korean women who were kept as sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II.
The Guardian notes:
"While Pyongyang is known for its aggressive rhetoric, recent remarks have been unusually personal.
"Earlier this month state media ran misogynist articles, including one headlined "We accuse Park the bitch", labelling her as a lunatic, idiot and 'cold-blooded animal' and emphasising the fact that she has never married or had children.
"Those remarks were presented in the form of quotes from ordinary North Koreans, while the latest tirade, carried by state news agency KCNA, is presented as a statement from an official body."