South Korea cannot pursue dialogue and confrontation with Pyongyang simultaneously, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Friday.

Pyongyang claimed that Seoul should learn the lessons from the “cursed crimes of ‘Yusin’ dictatorship which made a severe obstacle to the future of the inter-Korean relations and unification movement.”

“Yunsin dictatorship” refers to the government of former South Korean President Park Chung-hee, the father of impeached former President Park Geun-hye.

But in an apparent nod to the new administration of Moon Jae-in, the editorial insisted that peaceful unification can’t be achieved if the South “follows the outsiders which attempt