- (Reuters) - North Korea described President George W.
Bush yesterday as a tyrannical political imbecile who put Hitler in the
shade and said Pyongyang could see no justification for talks with the
US.
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- Six-party talks on the North's nuclear weapons ambitions,
planned for this month, have yet to materialise. The date for more senior
talks is also in question, although diplomats note Pyongyang often raises
its rhetoric before talking or compromising.
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- The official KCNA news agency quoted a North Korean Foreign
Ministry spokesman as saying Bush had hurled "malignant slanders and
calumnies" against Pyongyang's leadership.
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- "This clearly proves that the DPRK [Democratic People's
Republic of Korea] was quite right when it commented that he is a political
imbecile bereft of even elementary morality as a human being and a bad
guy, much less being a politician," the spokesman said. "Bush
is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade."
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- He said US policy made it impossible to hold working-level
talks between the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the US.
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