State Urges Unity After U.S. Rejects Demand
North Korea urged its impoverished citizens to rally around leader Kim Jong Il, after Washington rebuffed the Communist North’s demand for direct talks to curb nuclear tension.
Pyongyang’s state-run daily newspaper Rodong Sinmun allotted its entire front page to an editorial saying that “the single-minded unity serves as the strongest weapon,” the official KCNA news agency reported. Minju Joson, another state-run daily, said “devotedly protecting the leader is our life and soul.”
The surge in rhetoric follows North Korea’s latest nuclear claim.
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