N Korea blasts 'imbecile' Rice

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NORTH Korea has defended its missile launches ahead of an Asian security forum expected to focus on them, describing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a "political imbecile" for criticising the tests.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) accused Dr Rice, who called North Korea a "completely irresponsible" and "dangerous" state for test-firing seven ballistic missiles on July 5, of distorting the facts.

However, the communist state also came in for criticism from a United Nations official who said the launches had prompted a cutback in food aid.

Dr Rice and her North Korean counterpart Paek Nam-Sun are due to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur on Friday amid international tensions over the missile tests.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19905952-1702,00.html

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Kim Jong Il Communication

:-)

And ya don't stop...

[radfringe]

2. 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.....

[dmoded]

6. just lol i admire their crassness when calling this admin 'names' :)

nothing held back.

[Eurobabe]

3. So now it's Condimbecile Rice?

[goforit]

14. LOL!! That has such a ring of truth to it.

[L0oniX]

18. No ...it's still Kindasleeza Rice

:silly:

[IndianaGreen]

4. It takes a lunatic to recognize another one!

a United Nations official who said the launches had prompted a cutback in food aid.

That is also lunacy on the part of the West: why punish the North Korean people for the idiocy of their leaders? This is like starving and denying medicines to the Iraqis, as we did until we decided to just destroy that country.

[Imajika]

7. Why should we be feeding the North Korean...

..people at all?

Sending all that food and fertilizer just allows the North Korean regime to divert that much more of their own money to their military.

By sending all that aid to North Korea, we actually prolong the rule of Stalinist North Korean government.

North Korea has a right to test all the missiles they want. I don't particularly care, it doesn't leave me quaking in my boots, and I wouldn't punish them for doing it. On the other hand, I'd have long ago cut off North Korea of completely. If China wants them to survive as a State, they can prop up the regime with their own money. I hope Japan and South Korea also completely cut them off. North Korea can be China's burden until they to have had enough Kim Jong-il and his ilk.

[MrPrax]

9. Oh pleez...

Next you'll go on about Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Syria, India, the wheat embargo in Ethiopia or some other...'collective punishment' tinfoil hat thing.

:sarcasm:

[Igel]

10. I seem to recall that at one point

UN agencies/NGOs were in N. Korea and supervised the distribution of a large portion of the aid. Seemed that the food was going for leadership first, until they were sated; to the army second; to workers in industries important to Kim third; and whatever was left over or substandard was given to the rest. The Mugabe Protocol, writ even more totalitarian, was overriden for a while by the sheer need for food.

But there's this nagging voice telling me that I skimmed some article in which it was said that Kim retook control of most of the food distribution. Am I misremembering?

As with international aid for Zimbabwe/Mugabe, or zakat through Hezbollah/Hamas, there's a problem in channeling food through the N. Korean state apparatus: It's what's owed them, it supports the party and its goals, it rewards those loyal to the state. "Repurposed" is the bit of management cant that comes to mind. It doesn't help those that the people doing the aiding want to help, except by allowing whatever other resources are freed up to go to the starving.

[Robb]

5. Stopped clock theory. n/t

[bemildred]

8. Nobody is wrong all the time.

:thumbsup:

[Gully Foyle]

11. Umm

I know people who are wrong all the time.
We call them by the colloquail term asshole.

[bemildred]

12. Yeah, I forgot Bush. nt

[robcon]

13. It makes Rice sympathetic.

I wish Kim would shut up.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Condi is as sympathetic as Leni Reifenstahl

with a fraction of Leni's talent.

[brentspeak]

15. Well, Rice is an imbecile, but not because wacko N.Korea says so

Three thousand dead Americans on 9/11 were able to attest to Condi "Who's Osama?" Rice's incompetence.

[saigon68]

16. Rice and her North Korean counterpart Paek Nam-Sun

Are quite a pair