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.”

Describing politicians linked to the now-impeached President Park Geun-hye as a “hotbed of treason, maladministration, and corruption,” the North said that