North Korea Rattles Its Sabers

[David Gold]

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[David Gold]

They call Rummy a psychopath. Reuters

North Korea Calls Rumsfeld Illiterate Psychopath


SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) described Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a dictatorial psychopath and a politically illiterate old man for criticizing Pyongyang and predicting its system would collapse.






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.


"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.


"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.


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 (news - web sites) ended inconclusively in Beijing last month. Another round is unlikely before November.

[David Gold]

I wonder how much of this is just bluster? AP
North Korea says it's making atom bombs
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it is using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic weapons, a move that could escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula and raise the stakes in Pyongyang's standoff with the United States.
North Korea has said before that it completed reprocessing its pool of 8,000 spent rods, but Thursday marked the first claim that it is using plutonium yielded from the rods to make nuclear weapons. U.S. and South Korean officials have been skeptical that the rods have been reprocessed.

The claim came amid increasing concern by U.S. intelligence analysts that North Korea might have three, four or even six nuclear weapons instead of the one or two the CIA now estimates.

[zenodaddy]

I say its enough bluster for us to send a few of our stealth bombers into their country and take out the plants..

Or we could take down their pants..

Or we could make them rant...

Or we could..

Lost my train of thought! :slapforehead:

LOL

[GeronL]

go read the Sun UK articles I just posted in the WAR ON IRAQ Forum

[David Gold]

Bush says a deal is possible. Wash Post

We Will Pledge Never To Invade N. Korea

[David Gold]

The North Koreans just blow it off.

[seattlegal]

I wonder how the Japanease feel about being in the "fallout zone" in the event of a nuclear weapon, or even a "dirty bomb," went off on the Korean peninsula.

[David Gold]

North Koreans making diplomatic news. I wouldn't trust these guys as far as I could throw them. Wash Times

N.Koreans Say They May Give Up Nukes