N Korea wants 'bitchy' envoy expelled

[BadKarma26]

North Korea has said it wants the "bitchy and malignant" US ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow removed for calling it a "criminal regime", Yonhap news agency reported.

Pyongyang called him "the worst ambassador in history" and predicted untold damage for the entire Korean people unless he went home, said Yonhap, the South Korean news agency.

"Ambassador Vershbow is the most bitchy and malignant ambassador in history," the Minju Joson, the North's cabinet newspaper, said in a commentary carried by the official (North) Korean Central News Agency, monitored here by Yonhap.

Last week Vershbow referred to North Korea as a "criminal regime" engaged in money laundering, drug running, counterfeiting and other illicit activities.

"Ambassador Vershbow is the most bitchy and malignant ambassador in history"

Commentary carried in North Korea's cabinet newspaper, Minju Joson
The remarks inflamed North Korea which said they were a "declaration of war."

Vershbow also upset many South Korean officials, who have been seeking to build bridges with Pyongyang during a delicate impasse in negotiations to end a standoff in nuclear disarmament talks.

South Korean media quoted one ruling party legislator as saying that the US envoy should leave unless he was prepared to soften his rhetoric.

Vershbow, former US ambassador to Moscow, took over in Seoul in October.

[sp2c]

yeah I'd get the hell out of here now if I were him ... before the "peacefull protestors" start showing up at the embassy walls!

[hughdotoh]

:lol: They actually said "bitchy"

[Beppo]

Vershbow also upset many South Korean officials, who have been seeking to build bridges with Pyongyang during a delicate impasse in negotiations to end a standoff in nuclear disarmament talks.That's South Korea's whole problem: They keep wanting to dance around the issue and placate their "brothers" in the North, not willing to either acknowledge or accept the fact that 50 years of living in a police state under two brutal dicatators has warped the minds of its citizens, and that they are no longer what the rest of the world would consider "civilized" or even "normal".

[asch]

well, he's, no doubt, dumb and unprofessional diplomat.
sometimes (sh)it happened.

[JoaMei]

Seens that hes doing his Job pretty good. rofl

[ViriiK]

The remarks inflamed North Korea which said they were a "declaration of war."Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought we were already in a state of war against North Korea but held off onto this day because of an agreement of a ceasefire between the 3 states, South Korea, North Korea, and the United Nations (circa 1953)

[M_S]

That's South Korea's whole problem: They keep wanting to dance around the issue and placate their "brothers" in the North, not willing to either acknowledge or accept the fact that 50 years of living in a police state under two brutal dicatators has warped the minds of its citizens, and that they are no longer what the rest of the world would consider "civilized" or even "normal".

Keep demonizing....

[Hellfish]

Keep demonizing....

It's not demonizing. It's true. When the two Koreas reunite, it'll be like taking people out of the year 1900 and dropping them into modern times. It'll be a big shock for them to find out so much of their existence was determined by lies. They'll see that American's don't eat babies, that South Koreans really are better off and that the world does not revolve around the Dear Leader.

It'd be like us waking up tomorrow and finding out that the Soviet Union actually took over the United States in 1955 after a nuclear war - but nobody told us about it. It'll be a total mind trip for them.

[toad]

North Korea has said it wants the "bitchy and malignant" US ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow removed for calling it a "criminal regime", Yonhap news agency reported.


Sounds like we have the right guy, in that position.

[Laworkerbee]

It's not demonizing. It's true. When the two Koreas reunite, it'll be like taking people out of the year 1900 and dropping them into modern times. It'll be a big shock for them to find out so much of their existence was determined by lies. They'll see that American's don't eat babies, that South Koreans really are better off and that the world does not revolve around the Dear Leader.

It'd be like us waking up tomorrow and finding out that the Soviet Union actually took over the United States in 1955 after a nuclear war - but nobody told us about it. It'll be a total mind trip for them.

Seriously! gonna take a whole lotta medication

[JoaMei]

Seriously! gonna take a whole lotta medication

Hes right, the Nort Koreans are not able to get any foreign news and cant leave the country. They have absolutely no Idea whats going on in the rest of the world.

[Hellfish]

I don't think they even have an idea of what's going on in their country. I've seen some photos from their museums - they think that the US started the Korean War, that the NKs sank several hundred (IIRC - it may have "only" been dozens) of US ships and that North Korea willfully ended the war out of their own good graces.

It's gonna be a severe shock to them when they find out otherwise, not to mention all the other lies they live with. I don't think that there's ever been an event in modern history akin to the shock and psychological trauma the NKs will experience when they join the rest of us - unless it's a very gradual process.

[ViktorNavorski]

The fact that when a big international event such as the World Cup was happening right next doors to them in South Korea and Japan and people living in North Korea knew little to nothing about it just goes to show how far backward that society went.

[Beppo]

The fact that when a big international event such as the World Cup was happening right next doors to them in South Korea and Japan and people living in North Korea knew little to nothing about it just goes to show how far backward that society went.
World Cup?!? Dude, they are unaware that World War 2 happened. They simply think the Japanese invaded and colonized them for 30 years (1910-1945) and that Great Leader Kim il-Sung was the one who finally defeated the Japanese invaders, forcing them to retreat in 1945. They know nothing of world history, and are unaware that the US' dropping of the atomic bomb in Japan is what actually led to the Japanese withdrawal.

North Korea makes for some fascinating study; It's Bizarro-land over there.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so mind-numbingly sad (and true).