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Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Going shopping

July 27, 2009 11:02
1 min read

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Put yourself in the shoes of an official spokesman for a government which has issues with the US. How would you react to remarks by Hillary Clinton with which you disagree?

Not like this, I venture to suggest:

An unnamed North Korean official quoted by the state-run KCNA news
agency calls Clinton "by no means intelligent" and a "funny lady."

"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping," he said.

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