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North Korea is very scary. Their rhetoric is very funny.

N. Korea says ‘political dwarf’ Japan doesn’t belong in 6-way talks

North Korea’s official media on Monday suggested Japan should be excluded from future multilateral talks on the North’s nuclear weapons program, which have been stalled since the last round was held in June last year.

“The nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula is not a matter for such an insincere and clumsy political dwarf as Japan to deal with,” the Minju Joson daily was quoted as saying by the Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Tokyo.

The report was reacting to Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka’s remarks last week that Japan “cannot tolerate the North Korea’s nuclear development,” and that the six-way talks—involving the two Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia—should be resumed quickly to resolve this issue.

Yabunaka has also said Japan intends to raise the issue at when the leaders of the Group of Eight countries—Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States—hold a summit Wednesday through Friday in Gleneagles, Scotland.

The Minju Joson warned that Japan’s raising the North Korean nuclear issue at the G8 summit would be a “foolish act.”