Posted on 07/25/2006 12:37:10 AM PDT by HAL9000
North Korea has defended its missile launches ahead of an Asian security forum expected to focus on them, describing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a "political imbecile" for criticising the tests.The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) accused Dr Rice, who called North Korea a "completely irresponsible" and "dangerous" state for test-firing seven ballistic missiles on July 5, of distorting the facts.
However, the communist state also came in for criticism from a United Nations official who said the launches had prompted a cutback in food aid.
Dr Rice and her North Korean counterpart Paek Nam-Sun are due to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur on Friday amid international tensions over the missile tests.
"Obviously, Rice made such an outcry in a bid to justify the US hostile policy to pressurise the DPRK (North Korea) with the ministerial meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum at hand and draw regional countries into its pressure campaign," KCNA said in a commentary.
"Her remarks are nothing but a sheer distortion of the reality which can convince no one."
The news agency said the North is under threat of attack from "the worst gangsters in the world" after the Bush administration listed it as part of an "axis of evil".
"It was none other than Rice who let loose a spate of such piffle over the launch of a few missiles as part of military training to cope with the US reckless moves for aggression and war," KCNA said.
"This cannot be construed otherwise than an outburst made by a political imbecile."
The North's test-firing of the seven missiles, which splashed down in the Sea of Japan, earned a unanimous rebuke from the United Nations Security Council - one immediately rejected by Pyongyang.
The North also rejected Dr Rice's claims that its tests had been reckless, saying it had "launched missiles only after airspace, land and waters of the sea had been confirmed to be completely safe".
Piffle?
Is Christopher Hitchens writing NK press releases now?
Oh, the huge manatee!
Not after calling it a slave state. Besides, "let loose a spate of such piffle" sounds much more like Andrew Sullivan.
"Is Christopher Hitchens ...."
I would say they are the dems talking points. Has Jay Rockefellerw been traveling again? And no I do not believe the story of some injury or sugery or whatever!!!!
bttt
Wow, sounds just like Dick Turbin, John Kerry, The Swimmer Kennedy and Hitlery.
Do you actually read Christopher Hitchens?
Imbicle???
With the moron they have for a leader they shouldn't talk.
I forget - does a moron outrank an imbecile, or is it the other way round?
Moron outranks a cretin and imbecile out ranks a jarhead and a jarhead outranks a moron and a cretin outranks a DUmmy.
The language and syntax of this article is so convoluted, I am reminded of the USS Pueblo incident in the late 60s when NKorea hijacked the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo off the high seas. During the 11 months that the crew was held captive by the NKoreans, the NKoreans displayed their naievte with, what became a famous story of, the "Hawaiian Good Luck Symbol", otherwise known in the US as the "One Finger Salute". The NKoreans didn't understand the meaning of the gesture and bought the story the sailors told them, using references to the "Hawaiian Good Luck Symbol" in their press releases. It was only after they picked up the real interpretation of the gesture from the news wires that the sailors paid a price for the lie. The NKoreans didn't much care for the laugh that the rest of the world had at their expense.
Wait until "piffle" hits Rush's show. Baghdad Bob will have had nothing on the NK interpreter who came up with "piffle" in this news release.
Rice is no imbecile, but the leader of North Korea is defintely a moron. And I don't know if a moron outranks an imbecile, but that troglodyte in North Korea is definetly on the lower end of the biological mental scale.
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