A North Korean agency on Monday blasted South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s administration’s handling of the Sewol sinking, claiming they bore responsible for a “massacre” and deserved a death sentence.

Over the weekend, North Korea admitted to its own tragedy, the collapse of an apartment building in Pyongyang, and government officials publicly accepted responsibility for an accident that may have claimed hundreds of lives.

This most recent statement, originating with the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, indicates that the North’s stance on the tragic ferry sinking, claiming the lives of nearly 300 people, mostly recent