North Korea launches personal attack on US secretary of state; she had earlier likened leadership in Pyongyang to 'unruly teenagers'

North Korea launched a scathing personal attack on U S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday after she likened the leadership in Pyongyang to "small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention".

At a meeting of southeast Asian nations in Phuket, Thailand, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman blasted Clinton for what he called a "spate of vulgar remarks unbecoming for her position everywhere she went since she was sworn in", according to the state-run KCNA news agency.

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