WASHINGTON (CNN) -- North Korea's rhetoric toward the United States has always had a certain bizarre, over-the-top quality to it. Under the Bush administration it labeled Undersecretary of State John Bolton "human scum." "Complete and irreversible denuclearization is the only viable path for North Korea," Hillary Clinton says. But the North Korea's latest comments about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are stunningly personal. An unnamed North Korean official quoted by the state-run KCNA news agency calls Clinton "by no means intelligent" and a "funny lady." "Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping," he said.
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"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl," official reportedly says of Clinton
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U.S. officials have likened North Korea's provocative actions to children acting out
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North Korea's nuclear test in May strengthened U.S. call for sanctions
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North Korea remains defiant, showing no signs of abandoning nuclear program
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