SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has tried
warnings of nuclear attack and racist diatribes
to criticize U.S. President Barack Obama. Now
it's turning to Abraham Lincoln.
North Korea's state media have constructed an
imaginary letter from the 16th U.S. president
that attacks Obama's "deception" over
Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is
the latest response from the North to rising
animosity with Washington following
Pyongyang's nuclear test and long-range rocket
launch earlier this year.
The letter, posted only in Korean on the DPRK
Today website, is likely aimed at a domestic
audience. DPRK Today is a relatively little
known outlet compared with the North's main
Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong
Sinmun newspaper, which outsiders regularly
check to find news from the authoritarian
country.
The letter is titled "Advice from Lincoln to
Obama."
"Hey, Obama," it begins. "I know you have a lot
on your mind these days ... I've decided to give
you a little advice after seeing you lost in
thought before my portrait during a recent
Easter Prayer Breakfast."
In the letter, Lincoln derides Obama's Nobel
Peace Prize-winning push to build a nuclear-free
world by questioning why the United States has
not taken the initiative to scale back its nuclear
arsenal first, even as it asks countries such as
North Korea to scrap their atomic programs.
"If the United States, a country with the world's
largest nuclear weapons stockpile, only pays lip
service, like a parrot, and doesn't do anything
actively, it will be a mockery to the entire
world," the letter has Lincoln say.
Although the fake Lincoln criticizes Obama, the
North doesn't portray the late president as a
good leader.
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