North Korea called South Korea's president "a parrot raised by America" on Tuesday, resuming its trademark derisive rhetoric against its rivals amid renewed animosities on the Korean Peninsula.
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, issued the latest verbal salvo after South Korean President Moon Jae-in criticized the North's missile launches last week. She said Moon's "illogical and brazen-faced" comments echoed the U.S. stance.
"We can hardly repress astonishment at his shamelessness," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the North's state media. "He cannot feel sorry for being 'praised' as a parrot raised by America."
Seoul's Unification Ministry expressed "strong regret" over her statement, saying that the two Koreas must observe "the rules of minimum etiquette in any circumstance."