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North Korea Calls Rumsfeld Illiterate Psychopath
2003-09-27
North Korea described Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a dictatorial psychopath and a politically illiterate old man for criticizing Pyongyang and predicting its system would collapse.
Illiterate psychopaths? Who would know better than KCNA? Must be true
Rumsfeld told U.S. and South Korean business leaders on Tuesday he had a night-time satellite picture of the divided peninsula in his office that showed the North almost entirely in darkness and the South aglow.
I’ve seen that too - there’s one bulb burning in the white slag factory
"While the situation in North Korea sometimes looks bleak, I’m convinced that one day freedom will come to the people and light up that oppressed land with hope and promise," he said in a speech mostly about the U.S.-South Korean military alliance. The response from the North’s official KCNA news agency was harsh even by its own rich rhetorical standards.
oooooooohhh!
"His remarks only go to prove that he is just an old man politically illiterate as he cannot measure up the present reality when all the countries are promoting peaceful co-existence, reconciliation and cooperation irrespective of ideologies and beliefs," it said in a long commentary. "It is not likely at all that he would speak truth as he is obsessed with wantonly harassing peace and security in different parts of the world and igniting wars. His outbursts, therefore, cannot be construed otherwise than a desperate shrill cry of a psychopath on his death bed."

It said Rumsfeld was cursed and hated worldwide.
He is. But by whom, that's the question? Bad guys just can't stand him, can they? And the fools he can't suffer gladly — they think he's just 'orrid...
The North’s criticism echoed remarks it made about State Department official John Bolton in August. It called him "human scum" for describing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as tyrannical dictator. KCNA said it was true North Korea had what it described as temporary economic difficulties but blamed the United States and said the communist country would emerge victorious. North Korea and the United States are at loggerheads over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. A first round of six-way talks with China, Japan, Russia and South Korea ended inconclusively in Beijing last month. Another round is unlikely before November.
harsh? that sounded like Rodong Sinmun on Prozac....I give it a 5.0...and that’s only for the "illiterate psychopath" and "wantonly harrassing peace"
Posted by:Frank G

#12  "Illitterate psychopath", eh? Hmmm.....




Nah. Too easy.
Posted by: mojo   2003-9-27 7:19:36 PM  

#11   The North Korean representative was also heard saying as he stepped away from the mic

"He big doo doo head too!"
Posted by: Paul   2003-9-27 2:46:28 PM  

#10  Illiterate psychopath? He was a Princeton Grad, honors student, fighter pilot...Of course, it seems so obvious that Milton Friedman's sidekick is illiterate. Can't these people read a CV?
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-27 2:15:20 PM  

#9  Here's the image if anyone hasn't seen it. The 38th Parallel forms a clear line across the Korean Peninsula with Seoul just below touching the western coast.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg
Posted by: Joe   2003-9-27 1:49:35 PM  

#8  4.5. Most of the same words can be found in writings of the West. The guy's a copy-cat. Needs to spend a few weeks in the white slag factory so he can be "re-educated".

North Korea is a territory devouring its children. Sooner or later, there's going to be a monumental collapse, one that will make the Russian collapse look like a tempest in a teapot. One good 8.0 earthquake in NKOR would kill 50,000 (human)rats living in tunnels beneath the DMZ, awaiting the "Great Leader's" orders to dash into the South and start buying!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-9-27 1:27:42 PM  

#7  North Korea described Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a dictatorial psychopath..

Haaahahahahahahahaaaaa, this stuff is priceless...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-27 1:26:25 PM  

#6  G Wiz: It's only a matter of time before one of the 10 dwarves uses "Sea of Fire"
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-27 1:11:17 PM  

#5  Sounds like the North Koreans have picked up on the looney left's Rumsfeld phobia. Kinda like Al Queda threw a bone to the anti-globos in one of their communiques last year.
Posted by: g wiz   2003-9-27 1:07:04 PM  

#4  wantonly harassing peace

Ok peace give it up.

6.78 with extra points for shaky knees.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-9-27 12:50:14 PM  

#3  I give it a 6.0. I liked the "desperate shrill cry of a psychopath on his death bed" (or were they referring to the Dear Lunatic?). But Raj is right, no juche or army-first/songun policy references. These days they are just spewing venom, not that old-fashioned rhetoric! Get some new writers.
Posted by: Spot   2003-9-27 12:37:43 PM  

#2  (holds up card) 4.5. No Juche, Glorious Leader, Army-based policy, blah blah blah. Lacking in all areas, really.

Can you say 'projection'?
Posted by: Raj   2003-9-27 11:04:48 AM  

#1  Ohhhh... Did little Kimmie-boy's feelngs get hurt by the big bad man? Ahhhhhh......

Looks like we struck a nerve!

I say "Pour it on!".
Posted by: CrazyFool   2003-9-27 10:57:00 AM  

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