N. Korea increases sexist attacks against S. Korean President Park

SEOUL, April 4 (UPI) -- North Korea’s propagandists turned to misogynistic name-calling in attacks on South Korea’s female President Park Geun-hye after she praised Korean unification in a speech in Dresden, Germany.

Recent attacks by the North Korean press have attempted to portray President Park as a weak female unqualified for the office of president, referring to her in the past two weeks as a “babbling peasant woman,” a “childish girl,” a “pumpkin,” and a “witch.”

The misogyny is new, but the crude insults are part of a tradition of Pyongyang propagandists. Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was often compared to a rat, with grotesque cartoons of him carrying a typical caption: “the dirty hairy body of rat-like Myung-bak.”

The North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a series of articles Thursday on President Park, titled “We accuse the bitch.” The articles criticized her for being unmarried and without children, and called her a “cold-blooded animal.”

The name-calling is a response to Park’s speech in Dresden, a city in the former East Germany, where she told students a reunification of Korea is inevitable. She also promised humanitarian aid to North Korea, regarded by the Pyongyang government as an insult.

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