Hillary ’funny, and looks like a schoolgirl’

North Korea launches personal attack on US secretary of state; she had earlier likened leadership in Pyongyang to 'unruly teenagers'

Hillary 'funny, and looks like a schoolgirl'

North Korea launches personal attack on US secretary of state; she had earlier likened leadership in Pyongyang to 'unruly teenagers'

North Korea launched a scathing personal attack on U S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday after she likened the leadership in Pyongyang to "small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention".

At a meeting of southeast Asian nations in Phuket, Thailand, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted Clinton for what he called a "spate of vulgar remarks unbecoming for her position everywhere she went since she was sworn in", according to the state-run KCNA news agency.

The spokesman called Clinton "by no means intelligent" and a "funny lady".

Clinton had earlier warned that North Korea's refusal to discuss its nuclear programme could provoke an arms race in northeast Asia.

"I was gratified by how many countries expressed to the North Korea delegation their concerns over the provocative behavior over the last few months," she said.

NK's Earlier Jibes

March 2002
After Bush bracketed the communist state of Kim Jong-il with Iran and pre-war Iraq as being part of an "axis of evil", the North shot back and called the US an "empire of evil"

May 2005
North Korea described Bush as "a hooligan bereft of any personality as a human being, to say nothing of stature as president of a country. He is a half-baked man in terms of morality and a philistine whom we can never deal with".

April 2004
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman described US Vice President Dick Cheney as a "mentally deranged person steeped in the inveterate enmity towards the system" in the North

May 2005
After US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the North as an "outpost of tyranny", a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman described Rice as "no more than an official of the most tyrannical dictatorial state in the world. Such woman bereft of any political logic is not the one to be dealt with by us."

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