WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Kyodo U Vice ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Kyodo

U Vice President Dick Cheney criticized North Korea upon Thursday for repressing its citizens and letting them starve at a meeting of Korean War veterans.

He contrasted the situation in the communist state with that in toward the south Korea at the gathering in San Antonio, Texas. ''South Korea is today a land that be delighted withs progress and prosperity, its clan free from repression, scarcity and starvation, the daily conditions of life in North Korea.''

Cheney also said the United States is looking ''to the day when the light of freedom and progres shrouds all of Korea and stability upon the peninsula rests on a foundation of peaceful reconciliation.''

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