Last night the government of North Korea proclaimed to the world that it had conducted a nuclear test. We're working to confirm North Korea's claim. Nonetheless, such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security. The United States condemns this provocative act. Once again North Korea has defied the will of the international community, and the international community will respond.(VIA NPR)
DIRECT FROM HIS WINDOWLESS CUBICLE IN HELL, DR. OMED RIFFS ON
Provocative Act
It’s an extremely provocative act.
It is a mad provocative act by a government which has lost all restraint.
It is hard to think of a more provocative act than this.
It is an unfortunate, provocative act that we cannot in any way encourage.
It was a provocative act that does not serve the cause of peace.
It is inconceivable that such a provocative act could have been undertaken.
It is the most dangerous and provocative act of folly.
it is quite appropriate to condemn this provocative and dangerous act.
It's very appropriate for countries to put sanctions on
to punish the provocative act.
We cannot say we cannot do anything.
We think it is a provocative act.
We view this as a deliberately provocative act.
We say North Korea did a provocative and unwise act.
We have here, then, a provocative and irresponsible act.
We point out, and object to, the oppressive and deliberately provocative act.
We stand next to you condemning the cowardly provocative act.
We strongly condemn any kind of provocative act, from whatever source.
We severely condemn this provocative act.
We lodge a strong protest to condemn this provocative act.
We condemn this provocative act and urge that it not be repeated.
We are truly facing a provocative act.
We cannot say we cannot do anything.
Our message is that this is a very provocative act.
You could hardly have had a more provocative act.
This provocative act violates a standing moratorium on provocative acts.
Washington warned it would be seen as a provocative act.
Britain said it would view any nuclear test as a highly provocative act.
We are consulting with international partners such as Russia and China
on the next steps uniting the world’s united opposition
to this provocative act.
Expect an impotent act of international self-stultification.
Do you have a position on whether this would be a provocative act or not?
I find it hard to believe that calling a provocative act
