N.K. says U.S. eagle is symbol of 'vicious double-dealing tactics'
SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea, which called U.S. President George W. Bush a "hooligan" and a "philistine," is now taking issue with the official emblem of the United States, the American eagle, in a North Korean media report Monday.
SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea, which called U.S. President George W. Bush a "hooligan" and a "philistine," is now taking issue with the official emblem of the United States, the American eagle, in a North Korean media report Monday.
The American eagle, whose left claw firmly holds an olive branch and the right one arrows, figures prominently on the dollar bill and other U.S. currency. The olive branch symbolizes peace and prosperity, and the arrows power.But for communist North Korea, the olive branch and arrows are nothing more than the carrot and stick the U.S. uses in occupying other countries."By wielding an olive branch in one hand and arrows in another, the United States is plotting to occupy revolutionary countries by force one by one, combining nuclear blackmail with peaceful infiltration, oppression and deception," the late North Korean leader Kim Il-sung reportedly said while he was alive, according to Radio Pyongyang. Kim is the father of current leader Kim Jong-il.North Korean radio on Monday rebroadcast the accusations against the U.S. originally leveled by the Rodong Sinmun, the North's official mouthpiece, last Wednesday.The newspaper accused the U.S. imperialists of resorting to sinister acts, saying Washington outwardly cries out for respect and friendship between countries, but viciously seeks aggression, military intervention and subversive acts against others behind their back."The U.S. tenaciously resorted to double-dealing tactics toward the former Soviet Union, the first socialist state," the paper said in a report carried by country's Korean Central News Agency. "When renegades of socialism came to power there and made one concession after another, the U.S. resorted to carrot tactics to drive it to collapse.
"The paper called on people to stand firm against the U.S.'s "stick tactics" and warned not to be tempted by its "carrot tactics," saying the situation in Iraq clearly shows what a "miserable lot" one meets if one backs down and yields to imperialism."Some countries in Africa that had once taken a stiff stand toward the U.S. are now succumbing to it, wanting its aid, discouraged by its invasion and occupation of Iraq. They, however, lament belatedly that they were duped by the U.S. promise of aid," it said.Despite repeated U.S. denials, North Korea fears that it might be another target of invasion, like Iraq, over its nuclear weapons program and that Washington is plotting Pyongyang's regime change.
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