N. Korea blasts Obama`s `hostile` media policy, vows stronger nuke deterrence

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday blasted U.S. President Barack
Obama for giving more money to radio stations who broadcast into the North, and
vowed to bolster its nuclear deterrence in the face of such "propaganda."
Obama submitted his budget request for fiscal year 2010 last month, calling for
expanded funding for state-run broadcasters Radio Free Asia and Voice of America,
both of which send Korean-language radio streams into the reclusive communist
state and in other languages throughout the region.
"This is proof that the hostile U.S. policy toward North Korea remains unchanged,
despite the new administration," Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency
said.
The report denounced the two radio stations as "propaganda" advocating the
"decadent bourgeois life style" of the U.S. to the North and other Asian
countries.
"It is a miscalculation if the U.S. thinks it can eliminate the ideology and
bring down the system chosen by our people through dissemination of its 'freedom'
and 'democracy,'" the report said.
The report also criticized Obama for spearheading the U.N. Security Council's
condemnation od the country's April rocket launch and for "enticing" the South
Korean government into joining a U.S.-led naval campaign aimed at stopping the
spread of weapons of mass destruction -- the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The report did not mention Obama's denouncement of the North's second nuclear
test on May 25.
"It is clear that no matter who is president in the U.S. there is never any
change to its hostile policy towards us," the report said. "As we have said
before, we will further bolster our nuclear deterrence so as to protect our
ideology and system."
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