Our Secretary of State calls them an "Outpost of Tyranny" and the excitable Left has a fit over the indignity of describing a tyrannical regime as tyrannical.
Lack of respect apparently causes states to go nuclear and we should just bow and scrape and all would be well.
So when you look at the record of North Korea's speech about us, you have to wonder if there is an excitable faction in Pyongyang telling the Pillsbury Nuke Boy that they are just pissing us off with this stuff:
"Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born," Davis told Reuters.
Launched in May, www.nk-news.net boasts of having nearly every KCNA article since December 1996 -- "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda ... each article written in the unique and indelible style of the KCNA."
Readers can get a taste of that KCNA style from recommended key word searches, such as "burning hatred," which turns up 18 articles. The targets of that hot wrath include Japan, Yankees, "U.S. imperialist ogres" and "class enemies."
"Human scum" yields 25 KCNA reports applying that epithet to U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and diplomat John Bolton. Rumsfeld also keeps company with Japanese officials in the "political dwarf" category.
Really, we should have turned North Korea into a glass slab based on the standards of our excitable Left here. As Davis notes:
"The 'axis of evil' remark pales in comparison to a single day of KCNA rhetoric," he said, referring a controversial 2002 Bush speech that lumped North Korea, Iran and prewar Iraq in a trio of malign countries.
Amazingly, after writing this article, the author could still call the Axis of Evil speech "controversial." Just what does it take to get through to the political dwarves in the media?
Where's John Bolton when we really need him.
