"To company with them is a disgrace for the clear and honest-minded Korean nation as they are ignorant inpolitics, vulgar in morals and lack elementary humannature, " the statement, attributed to North Korea's National Defense Commission, considered its most powerful organ, said of Mr. Lee's government.
"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs, " reflected the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.