Nork diplomacy through insult continues

AP/Fox News:

North Korea denounced U.S. leaders as "warmongers" on Saturday and called Japanese officials "political imbeciles" for saying they won't accept Pyongyang as a nuclear power.

In typically harsh rhetoric, the reclusive communist state demanded Japan stay away from international disarmament negotiations, which also include China, Russia, the U.S. and South Korea.

The North agreed earlier this week to return to the talks, the first relaxation of tension after its Oct. 9 nuclear test. The talks have been stalled for a year.

A statement from North Korea's Foreign Ministry on Saturday said there was no need for Japan to participate in the talks "because it is no more than a state of the U.S."

The Foreign Ministry said most of the international community had welcomed North Korea's return to the talks. "Only Japan that expressed its wicked intention," referring to comments by Tokyo that it will not accept a nuclear North Korea.

"The Japanese authorities have thus clearly proved themselves that they are political imbeciles," added the statement, carried by the North's official Korea Central News Agency, or KCNA.

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"The U.S. has become more fanatic in pushing for its war scheme to attack the North, taking issue with our war-deterrent measure we were compelled to strengthen to protect our sovereignty and right to survive from their serious threat," the editorial said.

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The North Korean official claimed it was Pyongyang which had proposed returning to the negotiations as a way for the U.S. to save face and not appear to be caving in to the North's demand that the financial issue be discussed, the statement said.

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These guys should apply for jobs at Comedy Central. All these comments are sure to make it easier for them to reach agreement on outstanding issues. Not. No they sound more like the taunts of a cowardly bully about to get his nose smashed. Prepared to be taunted again before this is resolved.