N. Koreans see nuke as pride - Monsters and Critics.com

By Lee Jong-Heon Nov 3, 2006, 13:51 GMT printer email RSS Talkback MT. KUMGANG, North Korea (UPI) -- Outside the country, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is viewed as a ruthless dictator who starves his people, devoting many of the country`s scarce resources to nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. His decision to conduct a nuclear test was considered a 'strategic failure' which would backfire by enhancing the positions of the U.S. hawks seeking regime change in Pyongyang as the road to disarming ...