N. Korea says Bush deserves shoes humiliation

SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Friday that U.S. President George W. Bush deserved the shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist during his recent trip to Baghdad, calling him "a cock soaked in the rain."

"The head of the United States who rammed through the 'anti-terror war' deserves
humiliation," Minju Joson, the North's cabinet newspaper said in an article
carried by the North's government website, Uriminzokkiri.
"Fortunately, he saw the shoes coming and swiftly ducked. Otherwise, he would
have had the shoe mark printed on his face, to his shame," it said.
The journalist, identified as Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi reporter for an
Egypt-based television station, threw his shoes at Bush during a news conference
Sunday evening. Bush brushed off the incident, joking the shoes were size 10.
Mocking Bush's quip, Pyongyang said, "The way he joked so as not to look
embarrassed was marvelously reminiscent of a cock soaked in the rain."
"It was an explosion of rage by the Iraqi people that accumulated over years
against the war fanatics who massacred more than 100,000 innocent Iraqi people by
manipulating accusations about weapons of mass destruction that don't exist and
waging a war," it said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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