The US ambassador to South Korea isn’t mincing his words:
A senior US diplomat has branded North Korea a “criminal regime” involved in arms sales, drug trafficking and currency forgery.
Alexander Vershbow, the new US ambassador to South Korea, was explaining why the US had imposed economic sanctions against the North.
The BBC isn’t happy:
Pyongyang is notoriously sensitive to such labels. US-North Korean relations were seriously damaged by President Bush’s branding of the North as part of an “axis of evil” in 2002.
Some analysts suspect hardliners have seized the initiative once again inside the Bush administration and that could prove a significant obstacle to further progress in the nuclear talks.
Curse those hardliners! Just when the talks were going so well.
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