The North Koreans unloaded on Vietnam today for the country’s role in the recent South Korean airlift of North Korean defectors to Seoul:
In an interview with North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, “We have sufficient material [showing] that Vietnam conspired with the U.S. and South Korean authorities’ enticed kidnapping of our citizens… We cannot overlook Vietnam’s complicity in this incident.”
The spokesperson said, “Most of our citizens who were made to look like defectors were actually people who were visiting their relatives in Northeast China who were caught by the evil hand and seduction tactics of enemy spy bodies… Through this incident, Vietnam has revealed on its own how it could easily commit faithless acts that forsake even basic moral sense and ethics between nations for its own interests.”
And God damn those slave trading NGOs:
The spokesperson also said, “The acts of human trafficking committed by some NGOs that, in the name of humanitarianism under the provocation of the United States, entice and sell our citizens, will definitely be taken into account.”
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God I love their rhetoric: “caught by the evil hand and seduction tactics of enemy spy bodies.” What’s really worrisome is the Roh administration trying to portray the defectors as escaping from economic hardship only…David Scofield has a good piece on this in the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FH03Dg03.html
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North Korea is becoming ever more deranged in its patently false public comments. Maybe there is a palace struggle or far more economic decline than is appreciated outside.
I wonder if party comrades in the DPRK foreign affairs sit around the office and say: “We are so full of sh*t. Do you think the rest of the world knows it yet?” I hope a brutal government that uses murder, terrorism, torture, kidnapping and slave-labour hasn’t yet found a way to kill some people’s sense of humour in North Korea.