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SEOUL-- Tensions between the United States and North Korea increased Monday as both sides turned up the rhetoric after a decision in Washington to dispatch 15 Nighthawk stealth fighters to the Korean Peninsula.

Vice President Dick Cheney of the United States described Kim Jong Il, the North Korean head of state, as an "irresponsible leader."

North Korea, in turn, called the deployment of U.S. aircraft a prelude to war.

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North Korea, in turn, called the deployment of U.S. aircraft a prelude to war. On Monday, the state-run Pyongyang Radio, using a vulgar epithet, compared Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of the United States to a dog "that has no fear of a tiger and barks at it."

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I'm assuming that wasn't the "vulgar epithet."

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Prelude to Korean War II?

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In any event, the military industrial complex needs a bogeyman, whether it's their former ally in the fight against communism, Osama bin Laden or whoever. They need to justify their hands in taxpayers pockets to the tune of several hundred billion dollars annually.

The real battle is fascism versus social democracy as usual. There just isn't a free market for peace.

[ 30 May 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]