North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Monday hit back at South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s statement urging North Koreans to defect to the South.

Rodong Sinmun slammed Park’s speech as an act of “insane baloney” which incited defection and attacked the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“It’s ridiculous and foolish that Park Geun-hye flutters her feet to smear our dignified leader’s reputation with infamy by persisting hallucinations in her head as an established fact and mentioning a reign of terror as well as starvation and repression,” Rodong reported on Monday.

“Park Geun-hye has the gall to ignore