North Korea is very scary. Their rhetoric is very funny.
N. Korea says ‘political dwarf’ Japan doesn’t belong in 6-way talksNorth 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.”
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asiapundit added these pithy words on Jul 05 05 at 11:43 ami wish i were as funny as the dear leader
Curzon has noticed yet another addition
Plunge Pontificates added these pithy words on Jul 06 05 at 12:01 amPolitical Dwarf
I missed this earlier, Curzon didn’t…
GraBlog added these pithy words on Jul 07 05 at 8:52 amThe Face of the Enemy
During breakfast, I told my wife about how North Korea said that Japan doesn’t belong in the six-way talks on their nuclear weapons program because… “The nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula is not a matter for such an insincere and clumsy politic…
GraBlog » The Face of the Enemy added these pithy words on Sep 02 05 at 8:33 pm[...] During breakfast, I told my wife about how North Korea said that Japan doesn’t belong in the six-way talks on their nuclear weapons program because… The nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula is not a matter for such an insincere and clumsy political dwarf as Japan to deal withso they should step aside and let the big guys talk (Hat tip to Cominganarchy). This is not the first time North Korea snapped at its neighbor, but the region is not known for favorable views of neighbors and good relations. For example, after the short anecdote my wife told me that when she was a kid she watched an animation for children called 똘ìÂ?´ìž¥êµ° (Tori Jangun, 197 . Click on the image to see the details. The interesting part of the story is, the pig in red cloth in the upper right corner was a not at all flattering portray of Kim Il-Sung Yuri Irsenowich Kim a.k.a. Kim Jong-Il (who at that time was the Party secretary of organization and propaganda and already designated as successor of his father, Kim Il-Sung). The wolfes in the lower left represent North Korean soldiers – the imagery is quite vivid. Tori Jangun was not only shown in the movies, but also in schools throughout the South Korean half of the penninsula. p.s.: unflattering appears to be a false friend? p.p.s.: During research, I came across Dictatorofthemonth.com Posted in Korea, Media [...]
tamura added these pithy words on 05 Jul 05 at 6:17 amhttp://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jul/03/op/op16p.html———————————The speaker who really lambasted the Americans was a South Korean, whose nation has a
defense treaty with the United States. The speaker reached back to a secret agreement
in 1905 in which the United States agreed not to interfere with Japan’s plans to annex
Korea, and Japan said it would not interfere with the United States in the Philippines.
Many of Korea’s ills since then, the speaker said, were the fault of the United States.———————————-
South Korean want to cancel alliance…
lirelou added these pithy words on 06 Jul 05 at 2:35 amAnd, of course, in 1905 the United States had this really huge Army and a Great White Fleet that could have easily forced the Japanese to toe the line. Speaking of political dwarfs, I wonder of Koizimi wears elevator shoes and combs his hair up in a pompadour to look taller like a certain political (obviously) giant?
Mike added these pithy words on 07 Jul 05 at 2:30 amBack then we watched the world tear itself apart, nowdays we participate. Neither right or wrong really, it’s about national priorities.
Kushibo added these pithy words on 07 Jul 05 at 8:39 amThe speaker who really lambasted the Americans was a South Korean, whose nation has a defense treaty with the United States. The speaker reached back to a secret agreement in 1905 in which the United States agreed not to interfere with Japan’s plans to annex
Korea, and Japan said it would not interfere with the United States in the Philippines. Many of Korea’s ills since then, the speaker said, were the fault of the United StatesFormer students of a leftist bent in Korea who have been fed too heavy a diet of Bruce Cumings like to take the 1905 agreement (which is not America’s finest hour, to be sure) and then make that the kernel of a screed against the United States. Some elements of this agenda are believed by a few in the whacko government of Roh Moohyun, which, it should be noted, is highly unpopular here.
While everybody’s-fault-but-ours plays in some parts of Korea (as it does in many other places), it does not translate into sentiment to boot the USFK out. If the current government were to make such a move (which they have said they absolutely would not), there would be massive demonstrations against them.
