A North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday slammed recent remarks attributed to the UN Secretary General over Pyongyang’s recent severing of inter-Korean communication lines.

In a statement carried the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the official condemned António Guterres’s comments — delivered by spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Wednesday morning — as “an expression of inappropriate and biased views.”

“We cannot but express our astonishment over such reckless remarks – devoid of the common sense of judgment, let alone the basic knowledge of inter-Korean relations – coming out from the center of the United Nations,” they said.

Accusing Guterres of