NKorea calls US-SKorea summit prelude to war
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ahead of a nuclear-powered U.S. carrier's visit to South Korea, North Korea on Friday called this week's summit between the U.S. and South Korean presidents a prelude to war against Pyongyang. Yet it also said it was waiting "with patience" to see if Seoul changes its policies.
The North described South Korean President Park Geun-hye's visit to Washington as a "despicable sycophantic trip to please her master."
The summit between the two allies is "a curtain-raiser to a dangerous war to invade" the North, an unnamed spokesman for the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea told the official Korean Central News Agency. The committee deals with cross-border relations, which are at a low point.
At the same time, the North Korean spokesman said Pyongyang is "following the present authorities in South Korea with patience," arguing that it is not Pyongyang but Seoul that should change its stance.
North Korea unleashed a flurry of war threats last month, but there has been a lull of late. There are some tentative signs of interest in diplomacy, though Pyongyang has also kept up its criticism of both Seoul and Pyongyang.
North Korea previously criticized the impending visit of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It and three other ships will arrive Saturday in the southeastern port city of Busan in a show of U.S. commitment in the region, the U.S.-South Korean Combined Forces Command said in a statement.
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