Vershbow the “Tyrant”
Really nothing new here other than North Korea has found a new person to work their insult magic on:
North Korea criticized the United States’ top envoy to Seoul for making provocative remarks about the communist country, calling the ambassador a “tyrant,” a news report said Sunday.
U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow labeled the North a “criminal regime” this month, citing Pyongyang’s alleged arms dealing, money laundering and counterfeiting. Since then, North Korea has repeatedly called on the South to expel Vershbow for slandering the North.
“It is clear (Vershbow) is a tyrant wearing the mask of a diplomat,” the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary Sunday, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
Like I said before nothing new here, and of course the South Korean government is quickly kissing North Korean butt afterwards:
Vershbow’s comments also have drawn rebukes from South Korean officials. Kim Won-wung, a lawmaker of the ruling Uri Party, recently warned he would campaign for Vershbow’s expulsion unless the ambassador moderates his criticism of the North.
I was thinking about this and maybe someone can answer this question, but does South Korea have the authority to expel a diplomat for saying something that people in the Uri Party don’t agree with? I wonder what the US response to a diplmat being expelled from South Korea would be?
