North Korea bans Bolton from talks [original NK rant in 2003]

Washington Times ^ | August 4, 2003

[TigerLikesRooster]

North Korea bans Bolton from talks

By - The Washington Times - Monday, August 4, 2003

SEOUL — Pyongyang, calling a senior American official “human scum” for criticizing North Korea’s leader, banned him from U.S.-proposed multilateral talks on its suspected development of nuclear weapons.

North Korea said that it won’t deal with U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton because he described communist leader Kim Jong Il as a “tyrannical dictator” and said “life is a hellish nightmare” for many North Koreans.

Mr. Bolton made the remarks during a visit to South Korea last week.

“Such human scum and bloodsucker is not entitled to take part in the talks,” said a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, according to the North’s official KCNA news agency.

“We have decided not to consider him as an official of the U.S. administration any longer nor to deal with him,” the unidentified spokesman said.

[TigerLikesRooster]

When Bolton finally shows up in Pyongyang, you know this N. Korean problem is finally over.:-)

[SgtHooper]

Your commentary might just be the foolishness here. So you take fatboy’s word for the dismantling, and to the extent necessary, with negotiations in the wee stages? At this time, this is all about posturing. You don’t actually believe that fatboy will comply with our demands do you? I find it highly unlikely that fatboy will give US or any other agency inspectors access to all sites that NEED to be examined on a routine basis. This can be an opportunity for the “good cop, bad cop” ploy, but giving fatboy some feeling of power if Trump keeps Bolton away, but then brings him back in at a later time.