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| Norks: Obama no different from Bush | |
| 2009-05-05 | |
"With nothing can the U.S. justify such illegal provocation as forcing the UNSC to table the issue of the DPRK's (North Korea) launch of a satellite for peaceful purposes and issue 'a presidential statement,'" the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in an interview with the Korean Central News Agency. "All the facts go to clearly prove that although the present U.S. administration plays tricks, talking about 'change' and 'multilateral cooperation diplomacy' it is nothing different from the preceding administration which frantically worked to stifle by force other countries which incurred its displeasure," the unidentified spokesman said. The spokesman also said the reality of international relations forces North Korea to bolster its nuclear power in self-defense. "The DPRK is firmly convinced that it was entirely just when it opted for bolstering the nuclear deterrent to protect the sovereignty and the right to existence of the country and the nation," he said. Pyongyang has refrained from name-calling and smearing Obama, a common recurrence during the preceding George W. Bush government, amid speculation that it wants to mend ties with Washington after eight years of largely frayed relations. Obama has yet to begin bilateral talks with Pyongyang, as his policy agenda is crowded by other foreign and economic issues. The North's spokesman renewed the country's claim that the country successfully launched a satellite. The Kwangmyongsong-2 is "regularly going round the earth," he said, citing ungrounded confirmation by U.S. scientific and military institutes. "It is only the U.S. administration and unsavory forces subservient to it that insist the DPRK's satellite launch was a ballistic missile launch," he said. Pyongyang said it will conduct a second nuclear test and inter-continental ballistic missile tests unless the U.N. Security Council apologizes for punishing its launch. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 IOW, they're glad to have a pushover in office they can still work. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-05-05 19:10 |
| #2 No need to go insulting hyenas, Criger. After all, unlike the Norks, hyenas serve a useful purpose.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-05 19:02 |
| #1 Poor babies, mabey they need to do some more soul searching because they dont seem to have realized that they (North Koreans) are just barely one up on the primitive scale from hyenas |
| Posted by: Criger Mussolini9004 2009-05-05 13:56 |