First Anniversary of North Korea’s Nuclear Test
by Richardson ~ October 9th, 2007. Filed under: Diplomacy, Engagement, Nuclear Proliferation, Six-Party Talks.Sounds like the Six-Party Talks are a great success:
North Korea on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the nuclear test that made it globally ostracized and the target of painful sanctions by calling it a “great miracle” for all Koreans.
The chest-thumping tone of the article in the Rodong Sinmun daily is unlikely to give much cheer to regional powers who last week announced an agreement with the hermit state to disable the nuclear plant it has used to make material for atomic bombs.
“We cannot forget it. The benevolent leader, with his great sword, made Chosun (Korea) into a strong independent state and handed our 70 million people skies of peace, skies of prosperity, skies of hopes to last forever,” it said in a reference to the communist world’s only dynastic leader, Kim Jong-il.
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The article did not explain why those celebrating would include South Koreans, who have been technically at war with the North for half a century and are the main target of its more than one-million-strong army and barrage of missiles.
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“The shouts of joy from October… (2006), when we continuously hurrahed General Kim Jong-il the most benevolent leader of the century, will be remembered forever in the 5,000 year history (of Korea). It is truly a great miracle,” the article said.
It went on to say that the world had been surprised how North Korea had managed to survive in the face of adversity to become “the most powerful and dignified nation and the strongest and greatest country in the world’s history.”(emphasis added)


October 9th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Gotta love propaganda.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:05 am
What, you mean North Korea isn’t, “the most powerful and dignified nation and the strongest and greatest country in the world’s history.” ???
I’m sure a significant (and slowly growing) portion of the population knows what nonsense that is, but probably a portion also believes it.
I wonder what the response would be if it was announced that Kim Jong-il had decided to help the economy by crapping diamond encrusted gold ingots?
October 10th, 2007 at 1:51 am
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