North Korea issued a series of verbal attacks on Thursday through its Korean Central News Agency that ruled out cooperation on retrieving American war dead from its territory, called the American dispatch of Nighthawk stealth fighter jets to South Korea “tantamount to turning a gun” on Korean unity, and then called Vice President Dick Cheney a “bloodthirsty beast.” The statements offer a small window into the thinking of an isolated nation that has been sparring with the United States over its nuclear arms program. They were made in response to the Bush administration’s decision to send 15 F-117A Nighthawks to South Korea and to withdraw American soldiers who were on a routine mission in North Korea seeking American remains from the war of half a century ago. Full Stroy
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