North Korea Compares Bush to Hitler

• "Bush is ridiculed and censured as an idiot, an ignorant, a tyrant and a man-killer" -North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman was responding to comments President Bush made last week in which he described the North's Kim Jong-il as a "tyrant". The spokesman also reiterated that North Korea will not attend a working meeting ahead of the next round of six-party talks on its nuclear programme. The working group is due to meet later this month in New York. President Bush explained in a speech in Hudson, Wisconsin, last Wednesday, his decision to ask other countries in the region to help him persuade the North to disarm. "I felt it was important to bring other countries into the mix, like China and Japan and South Korea and Russia, so there's now five countries saying to the tyrant in North Korea, disarm, disarm," he said. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, in comments carried by state news agency KCNA, responded: "This clearly proves that the DPRK [North Korea] was right when it commented that he is a political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality..... "Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade and his group of such tyrants is a typical gang of political gangsters," he said. [more ]