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...then Under Secretary of State John Bolton calls Kim a "tyrannical dictator" whose people's lives are a "hellish nightmare." Pyongyang dubs Bolton a "bloodsucker" and "human scum...
...April 28, 2005: At a press conference, Bush calls Kim Jong Il a "tyrant" and a "dangerous person ... who starves his people." Pyongyang's riposte: the President is a "philistine" and a "hooligan bereft of any personality...
...arsenal of insults for its nemesis, the United States. Pyongyang blasted George W. Bush in a newspaper editorial last week, calling the U.S. President "a first-class war maniac." A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said the diplomatic taunts, particularly Bush's April comment calling North Korea's Kim Jong Il a "tyrant," had "destroyed the atmosphere" for productive negotiations. But this war of words has been escalating for years...
...Bush says Kim has failed to keep a promise to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman replies that America's new President is "worrying about others when he can't wipe his own nose...
...Becker acknowledges, it's difficult to prevent starvation in a country where the paramount leader is unmoved by the suffering of his subjects. The author makes the case that the world should act against Kim, not simply because of his nuclear program, but because of what he's done to his own people. The only way to achieve any meaningful change, Becker asserts, is to remove Kim from power. "With the right political will," he writes, "the world could quickly agree on remedies to disarm a criminal state." Perhaps, but after years of trying, the best diplomatic efforts...