Park said this at a recent seminar held in the run-up to the "Nuclear Security Summit".

Refuting her remarks, Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in a bylined commentary that the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is a choice for self-defence to protect its sovereignty and the national security from the U.S. and the south Korean ruling forces' nuclear war threats.

It goes on to say:

Park did not mention even a word about the crimes committed by the south Korean authorities that spawned the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and instead said "the north's access to nuclear is unacceptable". It is a height of ignorance.

Park does not draw a lesson from traitor Lee Myung Bak's failure in his confrontation policy.

The "opportunity for choice" touted by her is aimed at leading the DPRK to "change in its system." By talking about "opportunity" and the like she openly declared that her goal is the "unification of the systems" just like that of Lee Myung Bak.

Park is a confrontation-minded element as bad as Lee.

She is keen to realize the conservative group's confrontation policy at any cost through its stay in power. She changed the party name under the signboard of "revamping" to calm down the public criticism of the group's four year misrule and made every possible effort to create impression that she is "different" from Lee Myung Bak.

However, the "Saenuri" Party's future is not bright because the south Korean people know well about the true colors of Park as a fellow of Lee.

Park would be well advised to cogitate about her future through Lee Myung Bak's miserable fate and behave herself.