North Korea called Vice President Dick Cheney a 'bloodthirsty beast' on June 2 2005, 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. A North Korean soldier observes the South Korean side at the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul May 28, 2005.
Vice President Dick Cheney, seen here in January 2005, made a tough attack on North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il that set off a new war of words between the United States and the Stalinist state
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