ROK to continue efforts for dialogue with DPRK

Medical services and nutritional food assistance would also be provided for female DPRK workers and their babies in the Kaesong industrial complex. About 40,000 DPRK workers, which account for 70 percent of the total working at the joint factory park, are reportedly known as women of fertility.

Those would be part of the so-called Dresden Declaration, a three-point proposal made by President Park during her visit to Germany in March. It includes assistance to pregnant women, mothers and babies in the DPRK.

Meanwhile, Park expressed her deep worry about the recent data leakage from nuclear reactors. "Nuclear reactors are the most important security facility directly linked to people's safety. Serious situations that should never have happened were caused in terms of national security," Park said.

Her comments came after a perpetrator posted blueprints and installation diagrams, taken from the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., the country's nuclear plant operator, on the Internet.

The perpetrator, who identified himself as "president of anti- nuclear group in Hawaii", claimed that he hacked and infiltrated computer systems of Korea Hydro, threatening the second hacking attack and another leakage of some 100,000 pages of undisclosed documents unless three nuclear reactors in the country's southeast are closed by Dec 25.

Park said people are deeply worried as Korea Hydro's blueprints and internal documents were disclosed on the Internet and the hacker demanded the halting of operations in the nuclear reactors. She called for prosecutors to make a thorough investigation into the accident and identify who is hiding behind the accident if any.

Korea Hydro operates all 23 nuclear reactors of the ROK. Its parent company is Korea Electric Power Corp, the state-run monopoly power supplier.