Monday, March 26, 2012

President Obama's Frank Assessment On North Korea



Obama's Disbelief After Staring Into N. Korea -- Yahoo News/AFP

After squinting through binoculars into a nation frozen in time, US President Barack Obama reeled off a contempt-laden and startlingly frank indictment of North Korea.

The Stalinist remnant of the Cold War was, in Obama's eyes, nothing but a nation which cannot make "anything of any use", "doesn't work", and even its vaunted weapons exports were hardly state of the art.

"It is like you are in a time warp," Obama said Sunday, after he toured a rocky border post in the demilitarised buffer zone that has split the Korean peninsular for longer than he has been alive.

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Update:
Obama: North Korea will achieve nothing with provocation -- CNN

My Comment: I actually found his remarks rather mild .... I would have used stronger language.

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