US dismisses ‘basket case’ North Korea’s ‘preposterous’ damage claim on war anniversary
By Matthew Lee, APFriday, June 25, 2010
US: NKorean war damages claim ‘preposterous’
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ridiculing North Korea for claiming the U.S. owes it $65 trillion in Korean War damages.
A State Department official said Friday the communist nation is an economic “basket case” due its own failed policies and called the compensation claim “preposterous.”
Marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the conflict, State spokesman P.J. Crowley said North Korea had no one but itself to blame for its isolation and said the North should abide by agreements to give up nuclear weapons and stop threatening its neighbors.
On Thursday, North Korea said the moneterary cost in its suffering from the conflict amounted to $65 trillion — five times the U.S. national debt.
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