North Korea has called South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye a myriad of unflattering names including a “venomous snake” and a “malignant tumor” and the latest verbal attack seems to have warranted a public statement to defend the country’s leader.

“North Korea should immediately suspend its slandering that does not help inter-Korean ties at all,” Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told reporters at a press briefing according to Yonhap News Agency. “The North should abide by its commitment to denuclearization and come forward for inter-Korean talks.”

South Korea among other world powers are focusing on getting the North to engage in some form of denuclearization and the ultimate goal is to reunify the two countries, but the current approach is not going over well with the communist nation.

“Park once again self-exposed through her reckless remarks that she is no more than a hideous confrontation maniac rare to be found in the world,” North Korea said in a public statement.

The U.S., Japan, South Korea and other world powers are hoping to come up with more effective strategies in beginning a meaningful dialogue with the North.