North Korea asks Seoul to choose between trust, confrontation

South Korea's Park Geun-hye government should choose between trust and confrontation with North Korea, Pyongyang's inter-Korean affairs body said Wednesday, urging Seoul to make the right choice. "Park Geun-hye pledged to take one step after another to build confidence between the South and the North while talking about confidence building ... but Park went the lengths of slandering the policy of the DPRK," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a questionnaire addressed to the Park administration, which was carried by the regime's Korean Central News Agency. "Confidence or confrontation?" asked one of the seven questions raised by the North. Other questions include "How does the present regime's North policy differ from the Lee Myung-bak regime's confrontation policy?" and "Who should make a right option?"    The committee also said the Park government is not only continuing former President Lee's hard-line North Korea policy but that it seeks even more fierce confrontation with the North. "The reality shows that it is none other than Park Geun-hye herself who should make a right option," it noted in the English-language dispatch. Responding to the questionnaire, Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eyi-do said he did not feel the need to react to the rude remarks one by one. Still, the South Korean government will release its stance to the public on Thursday, said the spokesman at the ministry in charge of inter-Korean matters.