SEOUL, June 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye
on Wednesday warned isolation and self-destruction against the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its reckless
provocations.
Park said at a meeting with consultants of the National
Unification Advisory Council that the DPRK should realize a fact
that reckless provocations would end up complete isolation and
self-destruction.
If the DPRK conducts additional nuclear tests, the South Korean
government will tackle it more sternly with the international
community, Park said.
Her comments came after Pyongyang test-fired two missiles, which
were believed to be intermediate-range Musudan ballistic missiles.
One of the two test-launches was estimated to have succeeded as it
flew about 400 km, near a required distance to be considered
successful.
The president said that Seoul has been creating an environment,
in which the DPRK regime has no choice but to realize a fact that
there is no future without giving up nuclear programs and return to
a path of change in cooperation with the international society.
Park criticized the DPRK for walking a way of isolation and
provocations that put itself in danger while claiming that it is a
nuclear state after nuclear tests and missile launches.
Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, followed
by a launch in February of a long-range rocket, which was condemned
as a disguised test of ballistic missile technology.
The South Korean leader said the DPRK's development of nuclear
weapons and long-range missiles are a grave provocation rattling
peace in the world, Northeast Asia and the Korean peninsula.
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