North Korea: Israel Is 'Dictatorial'

 

Newsmax

 

In what might be called a foray into the absurd, the police state of North Korea has accused the Israeli democracy of "representing dictatorial forces."

North Korea was responding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments to the Japanese premier during his recent visit to Israel. Netanyahu said that both Israel and Japan face "formidable threats from nearby rogue states" — Israel from Iran and Japan from North Korea, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Iran "cannot be allowed to travel the road taken by North Korea," Netanyahu said, citing an agreement with North Korea in 1994 that "was widely celebrated as a historic breakthrough for nonproliferation, but in the end, that deal failed to prevent the dangerous proliferation that threatens all of East Asia today."

The prime minister went on to say: "Both Iran and North Korea are governed by ruthless and extreme dictatorships, states that seek to bully and intimidate their neighbors.

"Iran and North Korea have aggressive military nuclear programs and they are both developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, ballistic missiles."

North Korea — officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) — issued a statement through the Korean Central News Agency castigating Netanyahu for "provocative remarks hurting the DPRK's dignity and social system," according to the Post.

The Kim Jong Un regime said Netanyahu's criticism amounted to "rubbish," and accused Israel of "representing dictatorial forces for aggression that trample down the legitimate right of the Palestinian people."

The North Korean statement also said: "Israel recently went the lengths of hurting the DPRK's dignified social system. The people-centered Korean-style socialist system is the most advantageous system under which the people became masters of everything, and the DPRK's nuclear weapons are powerful deterrents to protect its social system."