North Korea on Saturday called disgraced former South Korean President Park Geun-hye a \u201ctraitor\u201d responsible for \u201cextra-large hideous corruption\u201d, in its first reaction to the sentencing of Park to 24 years in prison on corruption charges. The insults carried by the North\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency came a day after the Seoul Central District Court found Park guilty on a variety of charges, including abusing her power and taking tens and millions of dollars from companies in bribes and through extortion. She had been under arrest since March last year.<\/p>\n
The relations between the Koreas were terrible while the conservative Park was in office as she took a hard line after the North accelerated its nuclear weapons and missile tests in 2016. For years, North Korea\u2019s state media used extremely violent and sexist language to criticize Park, calling her a \u201cprostitute\u201d for the United States and a \u201cmurderous demon\u201d destined to meet \u201ca sudden and violent death.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June last year, North Korea vowed to execute Park and her spy chief, accusing them of planning to assassinate the North\u2019s supreme leadership, an allegation the South\u2019s National Intelligence Service denied. Millions of South Koreans protested for Park\u2019s ouster before an opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach her in December 2016. Park was formally removed from office and arrested in March last year. She called her trial political revenge and declined to attend court sessions.<\/p>\n
Park still has her supporters most of them in their 50s, 60s and 70s _ who spent the past year passionately rallying for her release. Thousands of pro-Park supporters angrily but peacefully marched near Seoul\u2019s presidential palace on Saturday, swinging South Korean and US flags and denouncing the court\u2019s verdict as \u201cjudicial murder\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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