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April 18, 2004
N.Korea Says Linking It to Terrorism Is Far-Fetched

REUTERS: N.Korea Says Linking It to Terrorism Is Far-Fetched

North Korea said Sunday that comments by Vice President Dick Cheney linking the one-party Asian state to terrorism were far-fetched.

Cheney said in a speech Friday that North Korea was ruled by a tyrannical government that thrived on terrorism and pointed to the fate of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for threatening the United States.

"It is quite understandable that the U.S. can not sleep in peace, terror-stricken by Al Qaeda, but its unreasonably linking the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) to such (an) organization is an expression of total ignorance and nothing but a far-fetched attempt to justify its hostile policy toward the DPRK," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying.

Posted by Laurence Simon at April 18, 2004 12:46 PM | TrackBack
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US to DPRK: Prove it!

Posted by: TL at April 18, 2004 02:02 PM

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