As any any news-obsessed individual knows by now, a war of words has broken out between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and North Korea – after the secretary likened the Hermit Kingdom’s regime to small children desperate for attention.
In response, the maniacally state-controlled Korean Central News Agency issued this retort from that nation’s foreign ministry, which says in part:
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has taken all necessary measures to protect the nation’s sovereignty and right to its existence to cope with the hostile policies and nuclear threat from the United States – not to attract anyone’s attention. … We can only regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady, since she enjoys uttering this type of rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette observed by the international community. Sometimes she looks like a primary school girl and at others, a pensioner going shopping. Anyone making such misstatements will have to pay for them.
July 23, 2009
North Korea – Korean Central News Agency – Home Page (English)
Pyongyang: On Thursday in answer to a question raised by the Korea Central News Agency, a Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted the anti-DPRK vituperation unleashed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Everywhere she has gone since being sworn in, the secretary has made a spate of vulgar remarks unbecoming of someone in her position.
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