North Korea accuses Clinton of ‘brigandish sophism’
North Korea’s ruling-party newspaper has accused Secretary Clinton of engaging in "brigandish sophism." An Agence France-Presse article related to the North Korean torpedo attack on the South Korean Cheonan ship says: The North’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun meanwhile accused US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of what it called "brigandish sophism" for describing Pyongyang ...
North Korea's ruling-party newspaper has accused Secretary Clinton of engaging in "brigandish sophism." An Agence France-Presse article related to the North Korean torpedo attack on the South Korean Cheonan ship says:
North Korea’s ruling-party newspaper has accused Secretary Clinton of engaging in "brigandish sophism." An Agence France-Presse article related to the North Korean torpedo attack on the South Korean Cheonan ship says:
The North’s ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun meanwhile accused US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of what it called "brigandish sophism" for describing Pyongyang as a threat to world peace.
It said the United States was the party endangering peace by planning naval exercises with the South at a time when "an all-out war may break out any moment".
The commentary carried on the official news agency referred to Clinton only as "Hillary".
Last July, after Clinton said North Korea’s leaders were acting like "unruly teenagers," North Korea said Clinton "looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."
(In the photo above, Clinton speaks in Seoul on May 26, 2010.)
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