According to the official North Korean News Agency (just smacks of objectivity, don’t it?), North Korea has dubbed the U.S. “empire of the devil,” the BBC reports. KCNA also claims that “Bush was using the threat supposedly posed by North Korea as a pretext for a huge increase in defence spending.”

Pretext for spending? Naw — those hijacked planes crashing into our buildings did the trick as far as a military spending increase goes. Nope, we just don’t trust you, N.K. Bush just decided he’d make it perfectly clear, is all…

[related: “North Korea says Bush remarks prove he’s ‘crazy'”]

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