The Truth Hurts

US Ambassador to Korea calls North Korea, “A Criminal Regime“:

U.S. Ambassador to Korea Alexander Vershbow on Wednesday made international headlines by calling the North Korean government a “criminal regime.” Vershbow made the remark at the Kwanhun Club, a gathering of senior South Korean journalists, when the subject of North Korea’s alleged currency counterfeiting came up.
Vershbow said North Korea’s was the first regime involved in government-sponsored currency counterfeiting “since Adolf Hitler.” Candid criticism of North Korea from a U.S. diplomat here is rare in a public forum.

Let’s see, the North Koreans export heroin, counterfeit US dollars, and illicit weapons and the US shouldn’t consider them a criminal regime? Of course the South Koreans don’t think so:

Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon urged caution, saying countries involved in six-party talks on the North’s nuclear program “need to exercise restraint in the words they choose to describe each other.”

At the meeting, Vershbow’s position diverged widely from Seoul’s on such issues as international recognition of the North Korean regime, human rights and counterfeiting.

Finally the US is executing some foreign policy against the North Koreans that has teeth instead of empty words. The US is definitely doing something right judging by how much the North and South Koreans are squeeling right now.