Posted on 02/17/2005 11:11:13 AM PST by wallcrawlr
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea marked the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il amid heightened nuclear tensions on Wednesday, comparing Kim to a daring porcupine routing an arrogant United States that swaggers like a tiger.
"The Americans swagger like a tiger around the world, but they whimper before our Republic as the tiger does before the porcupine," Pyongyang Radio said. "That's because we have our Great Leader Kim Jong Il, who is undefeatable."
The dispatch was alluding to a popular North Korean folk tale and TV animation where a porcupine defeats a tiger by sticking its quills in the tiger's nose.
"As long as we are led by Kim Jong Il ... endowed with outstanding commandership art and matchless courage and pluck, any anti-(North) plot of the U.S. imperialists will prove futile," Rodong Shinmun wrote.
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Fretful porpentine placemarker.
Usually the headlines are about Ministry Z receiving gifts from country X, Y praises Dear Leader, Imperialist
Japan, USA is imperialistic, US out of the pennisula...
I was checking it years ago when a sub was grounded off of the ROK.
During one celbration--I think the 50th anniversary of the N. Korean Communist Party, everyone in the country got a new pair of underwear. Now that's what I call a celebration.
I thought Aquarians were suppose to be "peaceful people"?????????
,,, it will come down to numbers of warheads and efficiency of deployment. Now's the time to shut their show down.
It's an Il wind that blows no good.
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