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Pretzelboy, in his State of the Union address last week, named North Korea as part of his fanciful 'axis of evil'. This has gotten the government here worried enough that the president has publicly announced "We should not let our 70 million people face the threat of war...We should ease the tension through dialogue with North Korea, and we should keep [the United States and the North] from drumming up a war atmosphere." Living, as I do, less than 100 km from the DMZ, this concerns me a bit. I've talked about this before, but this 'axis of evil' thing takes it to a new level, and the sheer white hot rage of a thousand suns that I feel when I contemplate the things that the American government is doing prevents me at this moment from commenting cogently (not that anyone who frequents this place expects cogent commentary from me, I know).

I will note, however, that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is quoted in the above Korea Times article referring to the North as "the world's number one merchant for ballistic missiles." To that I would reply that in the year 2000, the US was responsible for more than 50% of global arms trading, and the wackjob up in Pyongyang was responsible for 0.4%.

'World's #1 merchant' indeed.

Update : This "Critical Analysis of the 2002 State of the Union Address" was helpful to me in fine-tuning my fury.

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