N.Korea calls U.S.'s Cheney a 'bloodthirsty beast'

Reuters ^ | Jon Herskovitz

[Michael Goldsberry]

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea called Vice President Dick Cheney a "bloodthirsty beast" on Thursday, in response to Cheney saying the North's leader Kim Jong-il was irresponsible and ran a police state.

"Cheney is hated as the most cruel monster and bloodthirsty beast, as he has drenched various parts of the world in blood," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency.

Washington and North Korea have been in the midst of a war of words in recent weeks, with President Bush calling the North's Kim a tyrant. Pyongyang has shot back calling Bush a half-baked man and a philistine.

Cheney said in a TV interview with CNN aired on Monday that Kim was "one of the world's more irresponsible leaders."

"He runs a police state. He's got one of the most heavily militarised societies in the world," Cheney said. "He doesn't take care of his people at all. And he obviously wants to throw his weight around and become a nuclear power."

The North Korean spokesman said Cheney's comments showed that the United States wanted to scuttle six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs in exchange for security guarantees and economic assistance.

Washington has been working to revive the talks that have been stalled for about a year. U.S. and North Korean officials had a rare, face-to-face meeting last month at the United Nations that some analysts said was a positive sign pointing to the resumption of talks.

But patience is wearing thin in Washington and U.S. officials have said they may take the North Korea nuclear issue to the U.N. Security Council, which could impose sanctions if Pyongyang refuses to return to the table.

In February, North Korea said it possessed nuclear weapons and was boycotting the six-party talks. Concerns that Pyongyang may soon conduct a nuclear test have added impetus to resume the talks that include North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.

"What Cheney uttered at a time when the issue of the six-party talks is high on the agenda is little short of telling the DPRK not to come out for the talks," the North's spokesman said. DPRK is short for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

On Wednesday, South Korea's foreign minister said distrust between Washington and Pyongyang was impeding resumption of the six-party talks, adding he was not overly concerned about the heated rhetoric between the two.

"Although improper words between the United States and North Korea were made recently, it is important to understand the stances of (the countries) involved in the six-way talks, rather than being nervous about those words themselves," Ban Ki-moon told a press briefing on Wednesday.

[crusadersoldier]

Well at least we know they are still getting the daily faxed democratic party talking points

[DTogo]

North Korean spokesman: Howard Dean??

[YoungCurmudgeon]

Actually this is laughably mild compared to the names I've heard the MSM and assorted flakes on the Left attribute to Cheney. Couldn't he at least include the obligatory "Hitler" reference?

[SkyPilot]

In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held. Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.

Over the past year harrowing first-hand testimonies from North Korean defectors have detailed execution and torture, and now chilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings.

Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.

Kwon Hyuk, who has changed his name, was the former military attaché at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing. He was also the chief of management at Camp 22. In the BBC's This World documentary, to be broadcast tonight, Hyuk claims he now wants the world to know what is happening.

'I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber,' he said. 'The parents, son and and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing.'

Hyuk has drawn detailed diagrams of the gas chamber he saw. He said: 'The glass chamber is sealed airtight. It is 3.5 metres wide, 3m long and 2.2m high_ [There] is the injection tube going through the unit. Normally, a family sticks together and individual prisoners stand separately around the corners. Scientists observe the entire process from above, through the glass.'

[blueblazes]

Actually, I think Bloodthirsty Beast is kind of a cool nickname. Dick, the Bloodthirsty Beast. I'd keep it.

[SevenofNine]

TOO FUNNY I got ping North Korea news list LOL!

Hey Freepers you guys are slipping by post 20 you should photo of Little Kim in Team America LOL!

[GVnana]

Cheney is hated as the most cruel monster and bloodthirsty beast, as he has drenched various parts of the world in blood

That's really gay.

[Americanexpat]

Yeah, kinda funny how liberals and communists all use the same words.

[Reactionary]

Is Lil' Kim saying that Stalinists don't qualify as "bloodtirsty beasts?"

Granted, Cheney hasn't starved millions, but there has to be some room for ridiculousness, stupidity, and irony.

[FormerACLUmember]

Yeah, kinda funny how liberals and communists all use the same words.

Kim Il Jung has a job waiting at the DNC. He is more lucid and stable than Dr. Demento, Howard Dean.

[Fudd Fan]

Well, Kim Jong Mentally-Ill is a gargoyle. So there!

[SevenofNine]

Yup it is for real

You know who that picture in his office at Pentagon RUMMY

Rummy show I think it was Fox news crew difference between South Korea and North Korea South Korea is full of light while there no lights in North korea it is gloomy place to live

[FierceDraka]

Coming from a country that bludgeons newborns to death with rifle butts before the mothers' eyes, being called a "bloodthirsty beast" could easily be construed as a compliment.

[FierceDraka]

I'm so - ronery, so ronery, so ronery and sadry arone
There's no one, juss me onry, sitting on my rittre thwone

[FierceDraka]

Wouldn't it be pronounced, "Brudfirssy Beese"?

[yooper]

"The North Korean spokesman said Cheney's comments showed that the United States wanted to scuttle six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs in exchange for security guarantees and economic assistance."

I say screw em' and their desired economic assistance. I'm mightily tired of this little sawed-off insane pissant telling us what to do, and what to say and not say. IMHO he's more dangerous than Zarqawi in the big picture. Let his people starve for a few months and let's see what happens to him.

Yes, it will surely be hard to sit back and watch the North Korean people starve, but hunger will be the surest catalyst in causing the North Korean people to string this guy up on a pole.

It all goes back to the Civil War and Sherman. Make the ordinary people howl, and peace will be shortly in sight.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #26

Apparently, when Cheney spoke, Kim Jong-il listened. I worried that he might miss it. Kim is now on the international limelight he has so craved, taking on big boys. Don't choke and disappoint us. Step up to it and get vaporized like a man.

[Randy Papadoo]

Kim's momma so nasty.

Clinton do phone sex with her and get clap in his ear!

[SevenofNine]

Yeah Dick Cheney is pay attention to him so in Kim Jong mind he hanging out with Big Dog sometimes Big Dog would bite you in the a** KIM HELLO