Posted on 12/24/2010 10:11:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver
North Korea blasts incoming Foreign Affairs chairwoman as 'human scum' By Bridget Johnson - 12/24/10 10:40 AM ET
North Korea's official news agency blasted the incoming chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- while mistaking her for a chairman.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a Cuban immigrant, has been a regular target of dictator Fidel Castro and his Latin American allies Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales.
But the Korean Central News Agency, the mouthpiece of Pyongyang in a country with no free media, said Wednesday that Ros-Lehtinen's calls for North Korea to be relisted as a state sponsor of terrorism were "intolerable as it is malignant vituperation against the dignified DPRK and its system."
"Ros, man representing the U.S. conservative hard-liners, is human scum as he earned ill-fame as an anti-communist fanatic," the KCNA wrote. "He is a political illiterate ignorant of the background against which the nuclear issue cropped up on the Korean Peninsula and the processes to settle it.
"It is natural to hear such rubbish from him."
North Korea said it was concerned that Ros-Lehtinen is taking the helm of Foreign Affairs as "it is quite clear that he would escalate the anti-DPRK campaign in Congress and political arena."
The KCNA claimed that pressure was already bearing fruit as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has vowed to pursue the terror designation and new sanctions in the next Congress and the State Department would tighten existing sanctions.
"The U.S. conservative hardliners, however, are crying out for relisting the DPRK as a 'state sponsor of terrorism'. This is a despicable bid to check the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The army and people of the DPRK will never pardon Ros and his group."
NK needs a spanking
North Korea is a rouge state, acting like a bully, selling nuclear and missile technology is places where that technology should not be.
I hope to live to see the current leader or his son toppled by a revolt of the people of that country. Any leader who allows his people to starve to death should be pushed out of office or killed by those he/she has let down.
LOL! And this from a nation which recently lowered the height of someone wanting to join the military to - 4' 5". The nation of midgets couldn't win a fight with a platoon of Tea Party women.
The starvation and subsequent permanent deficit of mental development is taking a toll.
For this reason, I would put their odds of actually getting a nuke to work without a “really, really big” industrial accident as very low.
Shouldn’t someone drop a nuke on the command and control of that wretched country and end their enslavement finally? Good God! Mr. Truman really blew it!
Quite an endorsement. I didn’t know the pubbies had anyone that good besides Sarah.
Do you mean rogue state? Although I could see "Dear Leader" in rouge and fishnet stockings. Most leftist dictators are a little sexually ambiguous. Look at Obama.
It's almost like everyone is keeping secret the fact that the DPRK's first two test "explosions" were duds. They fizzled.
Insufficient purity in their Pu239...to much Pu240. It's a very difficult purification process...the left the rods in the reactor too long.
“Good God! Mr. Truman really blew it!”
Yet he’s a “national hero” and Douglas MacArthur either ignored or vilified.
You might want to check on some of Ros-Lehtinen's votes during the lame-duck before saying that.
...just sayin'.
The best endorsement ever!
If MacArthur hadn’t botched the approach on the Yalu, and ignored the warnings of the Communist intervention, we might not have a North Korean leadership in Pyongyang now. As a West Point historian noted in a lecture I attended, “MacArthur thought he understood the Asian mind. He was wrong.”
It means she’s doing something right.
“If MacArthur hadn’t botched the approach on the Yalu”
I’m not sure what you mean by botched. Supply lines too strung out?
“and ignored the warnings of the Communist intervention”
It is not altogether certain that he received those warnings. The information that MacArthur received was filtered through Adolf Tscheppe-Weidenbach, the son of Baron von Tscheppe-Weidenbach from Baden, Germany, and Emma Willoughby. After attending the University of Heidelberg, Adolf moved to the United States in 1910 and became known as Charles Willoughby—and, much later, became MacArthur’s Chief of Intelligence.
It is said that Willoughby suppressed an analysis by a junior officer that predicted the North’s attack, and tried to have that junior officer given the bum’s rush out of the military. It is also rumored that MacArthur later heard of that report, which may have had something to do with Willoughby’s rather abrupt resignation. Willoughby may have decided that “the General” didn’t need to hear about those warnings from the Chinese.
Another theory is that MacArthur, being a Machiavellian SOB, was trying to force Truman’s hand vis a vis the Red Chinese.
One thing I do think is true: it would be exceedingly odd if a genius like MacArthur were to blunder as you imply.
“we might not have a North Korean leadership in Pyongyang now”
I don’t quite understand how MacArthur reining in at the 38th parallel would have prevented that. How much further north could he have gone without bringing the Chicoms in? Pyongyang? How close to the Yalu?
“As a West Point historian noted in a lecture I attended, “MacArthur thought he understood the Asian mind. He was wrong.’ “
I won’t argue with that. I’ve often said the same thing myself. However, that was one of the very, very few things that he didn’t understand.
Can’t wait to hear Obama’s apology to North Korea.
More brainwashing...anyone with any commonsense knows that President Truman allowed the Chinese to kill our troopers and he pulled them back! What the heck? And condemned a whole country to enslavement of a horrible communist monster.
MacArthur's genius failed spectacularly twice... December 1941, when he had news of the Japanese attack on Hawaii before the Philippines were attacked, and when the Chinese intervened in the war.
There was another warning, from the Chinese through the Indians at the U.N.
As you noted, MacArthur could have been playing his own game. Truman had given enough reason to trust his foreign policy, but MacArthur might have been thinking of the 1952 nomination. Of course, this is speculation.
I do think that those who think that letting one general loose on the Reds, whether it be Patton or MacArthur, would stop Communism failed to see the stubbornness of the Soviets. Patton would have run into Zhukov, Koniev, and Chuikov, among other generals. MacArthur might have as well.
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