Adding to its list of insults hurled against significant leaders from rival countries, the ‘hermit kingdom’ country of North Korea has called on Wednesday called US Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous lantern jaw.”
North Korea, which easily gets peeved at annual joint US-South Korea drills, considering them a rehearsal to invade Pyongyang, has in past too, unleashed vicious personal attacks on leaders like US President Barack Obama and South Korea’s Park Geun-Hye. In April this year, when Obama visited South and called North a “pariah state”, North Korea launched a sharp-worded diatribe referring to Park as a “prostitute” and Obama as her “pimp”.
“Park Geun-Hye’s recent behaviour with Obama was like a mean, immature girl begging gangsters to beat up someone she does not like,” said the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK).
“Or a crafty prostitute eagerly trying to frame someone by giving her body to a powerful pimp,” it added, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
In the latest slur, an unidentified policy department spokesman at the North Korean defense commission, led by leader Kim Jong Un, described Kerry as a “wolf donning the mask of sheep.”
The latest slur against John Kerry, which appeared only in a Korean-language dispatch, suggested that it was meant to rally anti-US sentiment and burnish the leadership’s image domestically at a time when Washington and Seoul are conducting annual military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal.
The spokesman criticized Kerry for recently saying Washington wants to see peace on the Korean Peninsula although the US and South Korea then went ahead with their summertime drills that North Korea has demanded be scrapped. The US and South Korea say the drills are defensive in nature.
The North Korean spokesman also criticized Kerry’s comments on North Korea’s human rights record and weapons programs.
