On the fifth day of North Korean coverage of the ongoing Choi Sun-sil scandal in South Korea, ruling party organ Rodong Sinmun has published its first official commentary on the controversy.

The article asks whether inter-Korean policy under the Park administration was guided by Choi Sun-sil, as multiple South Korean reports indicate.

“Top secret information, such as North-South secret military meetings, was discussed in (Choi’s) secret office in Nonhyeon-dong, Seoul,” Rodong Sinmun, the most widely-read newspaper in the DPRK, said.

“…and the incidents that drove inter-Korean relations to extremes – such as the resumption of loudspeakersand shutdown of