Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon returned to South Korea on Thursday as Pyongyang released multiple articles criticizing him as an “absolute pro-American” not fit to run for the South Korean presidency.

“He is… not different from Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye who have plotted the anti-DPRK policies to isolate and crush us,” North Korean outlet DPRK Today wrote on Thursday.

“It is Saenuri’s [Park Geun-hye’s party] plot to bring in the power-thirsty Ban Ki-moon… to accomplish another conservative government during the upcoming South Korean presidential election,” Workers’ Party organ Rodong Sinmun said on the same day.

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