In an interview with the state-run KCNA news agency on Sunday, a spokesman for North Korea’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea rejected any possibility of reforms in the country, AFP reported.
“The puppet group (the South)…tried to give [the] impression that the present leadership of the DPRK (North Korea) broke with the past. This is the height of ignorance,” the spokesman said.
“To expect policy change and reform and opening from the DPRK is nothing but a foolish and silly dream, just like wanting the sun to rise in the west.”
The spokesman also said South Korea is making efforts to impose its capitalist system upon the North by “trumpeting reform and opening.”
He warned Seoul that “there cannot be any slightest change in all policies” of Pyongyang.
Rumors arose of an imminent change earlier this month when Pyongyang sacked well-known military chief Ri Yong-ho and replaced him with an obscure general and promoted Kim Jong-un to the top military post of marshal.
On July 20, a source with close ties to the governments in Beijing and Pyongyang said that Kim Jong-un plans to take control of the economy from the military.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, added that the new North Korean leader dismissed the military chief for his opposition to plans for the most significant economic overhaul in the communist state in decades.
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