NKorea Labels Rumsfeld "Dictatorial Psychopath"
"Rumsfeld, whose political faith is to establish the U.S.-style world order by strength, is known to be a typical stupid man for professing neo-conservatism censured and mocked at worldwide," North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said late Saturday, September 27.
It asserted the U.S. Defense Secretary was "obsessed with wantonly harassing peace and security in different parts of the world and igniting wars," reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"He is, therefore, not a guy who the DPRK (North Korea) can deal with," it concluded.
The condemnation, outspoken even for the official news agency, followed Rumsfeld’s own negative comments about North Korea in a recent speech to U.S. and South Korean business leaders, reported the BBC News Online.
Rumsfeld had said that "while the situation in North Korea sometimes looks bleak, I’m convinced that one day freedom will come to the people and light up that oppressed land with hope and promise."
He added he had a night-time satellite picture of the divided peninsula in his office that showed the North almost entirely in darkness and the South lit up.
The remarks prove Rumsfeld is "just an old man (and) politically illiterate", it stressed, asserting he could not face the reality that "all countries are promoting peaceful co-existence, reconciliation and cooperation irrespective of ideologies and beliefs," according to KCNA.
Following summit talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Camp David Saturday, U.S. President George W Bush again called on Pyongyang to end its plans for nuclear weapons.
The Korean news agency said it was easy to asses the political line of the Bush administration "which includes such a dangerous international dictator" as Rumsfeld.
In August, U.S. State Department official John Bolton was described as "human scum" for calling North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il a tyrannical dictator, reported the BBC.
Tensions have been high since the U.S. and North Korea became engaged in a war of words over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions last October.
Washington has labeled North Korea as part of the so-called "axis of evil" together with Iran and Iraq (before the U.S. invaded the oil-rich Arab country and ousted the ruling regime).
The U.S. has insisted that North Korea scrap its nuclear weapons drive before it would consider offering the Stalinist state concessions, including economic and security benefits.
For its part, North Korea is demanding a legally binding non-aggression pact with Washington before it will address the nuclear issue.
Pyongyang also blamed U.S. hostility for the collapse of six-way talks on the nuclear crisis held in Beijing last month.
