North Korea Uses Fake Abraham Lincoln Letter To Mock President Obama
The North Koreans continue to find different ways to mock President Obama. At least this time they did not resort to racism:
North Korea has tried warnings of nuclear attack and racist diatribes to criticize U.S. President Barack Obama. Now it’s turning to Abraham Lincoln.
North Korea’s state media have constructed an imaginary letter from the 16th U.S. president that attacks Obama’s “deception” over Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is the latest response from the North to rising animosity with Washington following Pyongyang’s nuclear test and long-range rocket launch earlier this year.
The letter, posted only in Korean on the DPRK Today website, is likely aimed at a domestic audience. DPRK Today is a relatively little known outlet compared with the North’s main Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which outsiders regularly check to find news from the authoritarian country.
The letter is titled “Advice from Lincoln to Obama.”
“Hey, Obama,” it begins. “I know you have a lot on your mind these days … I’ve decided to give you a little advice after seeing you lost in thought before my portrait during a recent Easter Prayer Breakfast.”
In the letter, Lincoln derides Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning push to build a nuclear-free world by questioning why the United States has not taken the initiative to scale back its nuclear arsenal first, even as it asks countries such as North Korea to scrap their atomic programs.
“If the United States, a country with the world’s largest nuclear weapons stockpile, only pays lip service, like a parrot, and doesn’t do anything actively, it will be a mockery to the entire world,” the letter has Lincoln say. [Seattle Times]
You can read the rest at the link.
Well, the North also says the South forcibly kidnapped the restaurant staff in the mass defection:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/04/12/North-Korea-says-Seoul-kidnapped-defectors/1391460467113/
How many South Koreans and Japanese have the North kidnapped over the years? I’m not talking about missionaries and people acting the fool on “vacation” to North Korea, I mean snatched off of a beach while walking along, minding their own business. I’m sure North Korea insisted that those people “Really wanted to learn Juche Philosophy right at the feet of Comrade General Kim” and not that they had committed a grave crime against other countries and their people.
In the letter, Lincoln derides Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning push to build a nuclear-free world by questioning why the United States has not taken the initiative to scale back its nuclear arsenal first, even as it asks countries such as North Korea to scrap their atomic programs.
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Wow. Apparently, President Lincoln has been out of the loop for a while. We might be behind schedule, but the U.S. and Russia have both made great progress in their nuclear arsenal scale-down over the years.
And President Lincoln also doesn’t seem to remember that the U.S. withdrew its tactical nuclear weapons from Korea back in the early 1990s as part of an initiative to pull all such deployed weapons out of service everywhere in the world. Russia followed suit, and eventually the entire AFAP class of nukes was eliminated. (BTW, this feat was accomplished without an associated treaty.) There weren’t any nuclear weapons on the peninsula from 1992 until North Korea finally claimed its first successful nuke test in 2006. Since then, the only nukes on the peninsula have belonged to North Korea. I guess President Lincoln hasn’t been kept up to date on any of that, either. But, hey, wasn’t it nice of him to write to President Obama?
Forgive Lincoln for this letter.
He hasn’t been quite right since his head injury.