Half-Baked Amoral Hooligan Philistine...

Whatever I said previously about North Korea’s slipping propaganda talk, I was certainly premature. Pyongyang has apparently replaced its dry script-writer with one much more attuned to the more classic taunts and rants. The latest descriptions of U.S. president George W. Bush (who himself seems unable to come up with anything better than the medieval “Tyrant” in describing Kim Jong Il) are regaining past glories. Bush is, according to Pyongyang, “a hooligan bereft of any personality as a human being, to say nothing of stature as president of a country," and “a half-baked man in terms of morality and a philistine.” Now, words like this may seem silly when Pyongyang has shut down its nuclear reactor with the threat to take out the fuel rods for reprocessing and is tossing Seersucker missiles into the East Sea, but... well, maybe there is no “but.” Maybe it is all just silly. So leave me alone, all you half-baked philistine’s bereft of personality. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries...