It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

THE JAPAN THAT CAN TALK BACK:

Japan on Tuesday blasted North Korea as "selfish" for saying Pyongyang will not allow Tokyo to take part in future six-nation talks aimed at resolving the dispute over the North's nuclear weapons program.

"It was a selfish thing for North Korea to say," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters.

Of course if "selfish" is the best Japan can come up with, the Japanese have much to learn before they can match the North Koreans in rhetorical vitriol. See this denunciation of the ROK's sending of troops to Iraq:

To send young people of south Korea as bullet-shields for U.S. troops at a time when the world opposes troop dispatch to Iraq, is an anti-national, pro-U.S. flunkeyist act harming the dignity of the nation, infringing upon its interests and disgracing it.

Or this attack on Japan:

Lurking behind this is a black-hearted intention of the present Japanese rulers to save Japan from economic depression and achieve the stability of their office by making its domestic policy veer to the right and stepping up its militarization under the pretext of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.

A little more harsh than "selfish."