North Korea on Saturday condemned news reports that portraits of totalitarian leader Kim Jong Il have been removed from public places, calling them "a foolish attempt to take the sun down from the sky." North Korea's state-run news agency, KCNA, said the reports were spread as part of a "psychological warfare" by the United States and other "hostile forces" to undermine the communist regime.
| That's why we planted the first reports with ITAR-TASS... |
North Korea warned that the psychological warfare will further hamper international efforts to resolve a disputer over its nuclear weapons programs. "This is part of an anti-North Korean racket aimed at tainting the lofty authority of our supreme leadership and creating a false impression that there is a problem within our republic," KCNA said in a dispatch monitored by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. "Any plot to defame our supreme leadership is nothing more than a foolish attempt to take the sun down from the sky," KCNA said.
| "Or the cheese from our crackers. Or maybe the white slag from the Juche-inspired Songun Army First™ policy..." |
| You know better than to mention "crackers" to the NKors, Fred ... |
Kim Jong Il, who inherited power from his late father and founding President Kim Il Sung, is "the destiny of our people and the destiny of our socialism," the dispatch said. It added that the North Korean military and people's trust in Kim "is getting stronger as the times pass."
| "He's not in stable condition! Really! Trust us on this! He's just... depressed. For now." |
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