May 03, 2024
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As South Korea votes for new President, Pyongyang calls for regime change

KCNA says conservative candidate Hong Jun-pyo is like "a detective during the Japanese occupation"

Ahead of South Koreans going to the polls to vote in an early Presidential election today, North Korea's ruling party organ said on Monday that the South Korean people should punish the country's conservatives and that regime change was “the demand of the public.”

Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), said that putting an end to the rule of the “puppet conservative parties” is a “shortcut to bring a new politics, life, and world.”

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