Politics > Politics-USA > North Korea compares Bush to Hitler, criticizes U.S. report on religious freedom
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North Korea compares Bush to Hitler, criticizes U.S. report on religious freedom |
North Korea compares Bush to Hitler, criticizes U.S. report on
religious freedom
Associated Press | November 22, 2005
SEOUL -- North Korea denounced U.S. President George W. Bush as a
"wicked man" comparable to Adolf Hitler, and labeled his advocating
democracy a pretext for invading other countries.
"The U.S. admonition for 'freedom' and 'democracy' is to invent
pretexts for violating sovereignty of other countries and nations and
establishing its unchallenged domination over the world," the North's
official Korean Central News Agency wrote late Monday.
Bush, addressing South Korea-based U.S. troops Sunday during an Asian
tour, didn't directly mention the North but alluded to the communist
nation as he praised the capitalist South.
South Korea "is now a beacon of liberty that shines across the most
heavily armed border in the world," Bush said. "It is a light reaching
to a land shrouded in darkness."
"Together the United States and (South Korea) have shown that the
future belongs to freedom, and one day all Koreans will enjoy the
blessings of freedom," he said.
The North said Bush's "reckless remarks would entail adverse
consequences in the process for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula."
KCNA called Bush a "warlike president" who "took the lead in
advocating state-sponsored terrorism" and "openly defended murderous
torture in prisons" -- which it claimed were reminiscent of the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
"History proves that the ringleaders of fascism that stood stern
trials for their crimes against humanity advocated 'freedom' and
'democracy' more noisily than any others," KCNA wrote. "This will only
more glaringly reveal his true colors as a wicked man whom the world
compares to fascist fanatic Hitler."
North Korea has bristled at U.S. criticism of its human rights record,
seeing it as part of an attempt to overthrow the regime.
Its fears grew after the United States invaded Iraq, and Pyongyang has
claimed it was compelled to build nuclear weapons for self-defense.
On Tuesday, the North also denounced a recent U.S. government report
citing the country's lack of religious freedom.
The report "is part of a U.S. plot to isolate and stifle anti-U.S.
countries one by one," the North's official Rodong Sinmun daily said
in a commentary carried by KCNA.
"The process of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula can progress only
in an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust," the newspaper said. The
United States and four other countries have sought since 2003 to
persuade the North to disarm, with China hosting talks on the matter.
In September, the delegates reached a breakthrough accord in which the
North pledged to abandon its nuclear programs in exchange for aid and
security assurances, but there has since been no progress on how to
implement the agreement.
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their memory, or their backbone, but we're not going to sit by and
let them rewrite history." -- ***** Cheney 11/16/2005
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