Do they Wear Pantsuits to Primary School in North Korea?
By The war of words between North Korea and the United States escalated Thursday, with North Korea’s Foreign Ministry lashing out at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in unusually personal terms for “vulgar remarks” that it said demonstrated “she is by no means intelligent.”
The Foreign Ministry statement attacking Clinton also amply demonstrated the North Korean mood. “We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said, according to North Korean media. “Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.”
In fairness, Clinton did compare the North Koreans to unruly toddlers and teenagers. Nevertheless, the Nork rhetoric vaguely reminds me of Daily Kos threads from the early days of the 2008 Democratic primary…