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N.Korea attacks US on unruly remarks SEOUL, Dec 10 (AFP) - North Korea on Saturday lashed out at the new US ambassador to Seoul over his description of the communist state as a "criminal regime," calling the comment an "intolerable provocation." A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said the remarks by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow amounted to a "declaration of war" against the whole Korean nation. Vershbow - who replaced Christopher Hill, now the chief US nuclear negotiator with North Korea, as ambassador in October - branded North Korea a criminal regime in a speech to journalists here Wednesday. "This clearly proved that nothing has changed in its hostile policy toward the DPRK (North Korea) although it signed the joint statement at the six-party talks," said the spokesman of the North Korean government agency dealing with inter-Korean affairs. "The DPRK will regard his utterance as a sort of provocative declaration of a war against the whole Korean nation and will mercilessly retaliate against it," the spokesman was quoted as saying by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency. He said Vershbow's remarks were an "intolerable provocation and insult" to North Korea and "a very serious development that fundamentally overturned the spirit" of a joint statement in September adopted at six-party nuclear talks. South Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan have been holding a series of talks with North Korea aimed at getting Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions. |
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