The Unification Ministry has dismissed North Korea’s response to the spiraling controversy over Former Foreign Minister Song Min-soon's memoir as trying to incite internal conflict within the South.

Ministry Spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told reporters on Monday that the North’s claim that Seoul never sought Pyongyang's opinion nor did it inform the North of its decision to abstain from a 2007 UN vote on the regime's human rights situation is a unilateral claim made with impure intentions.
 
Meanwhile, former chairman of the main opposition party Moon Jae-in urged the North to not intervene in South Korean politics. Moon further pinned the blame on the ruling Saenuri Party for adding fuel to the fire.

The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Unification for the Fatherland revealed its first response to the dispute earlier in the day. A committee spokesman went on to say that the memoir’s content is a contemptible political scheme by the ruling party.