Seoul denounces North Korea "foul" slurs

Document photograph: South Korean President Park Geun-hye North Korea called Ms Park a "whore", in addition to different names

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South Korea has denounced North Korea's most recent verbal assault on its leader as "unspeakable", after it compared her to a whore.

In comments on Sunday, North Korea called President Park Geun-hye a "solace lady", alluding to sex slaves throughout World War Two.

It blamed her for pandering to her "pimp", US President Barack Obama, who went to Seoul a week ago.

He and Ms Park cautioned Pyongyang against leading a fourth atomic test.

Their cautioning came after reports of expanded action at North Korea's atomic test site.

'Awful whore'

In an articulation, North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea blamed Ms Park for indulging her "compelling pimp", Mr Obama.

It called Ms Park "a devilish sycophant and double crosser, a messy solace lady for the US and terrible whore auctioning off the country".

North Korean state media have conveyed particular strike on South Korean pioneers on numerous events previously, however the talk regulated at Ms Park - the first female president - seems, by all accounts, to be especially horrible.

On Monday, Seoul's Unification Ministry representative Kim Eui-do urged Pyongyang to maintain a prior consent to stop the talk.

He said the North's proceeding "to issue unspeakable condemnations and foul words is an unethical demonstration".

"On the off chance that the North has the scarcest feeling for its kin... it ought to stop its silly conduct and take the way to co-operation and joint success," he was cited as saying.

Pressures have been high on the Korean promontory in the company of reports dependent upon satellite symbolism that Pyongyang could be wanting to direct an alternate atomic test.

North Korea has completed three such tests previously, most as of late in February 2013.

All brought about the burden of approvals by the UN, which obstructs Pyongyang from atomic tests under determination 1718.

A week ago, Mr Obama said that the US and South Korea stood "shoulder to shoulder, both in face of Pyongyang's incitements and our refusal to acknowledge an atomic North Korea".