(Sky News) — An open letter from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama accuses the current US President of hypocrisy over his stance on nuclear weapons – according to the North Korean media.
DPRK Today published the letter in which the 16th US President gives “a little advice” from the grave, warning Mr Obama will be ridiculed for demanding Pyongyang scraps its nuclear weapons programme.
Abraham Lincoln, who served in office for four years until his assassination in 1865, appears to deride Obama’s push to build a nuclear-free world by questioning why the US has not taken the initiative to scale back its own nuclear arsenal.
“Hey, Obama,” it begins. “I know you have a lot on your mind these days … I’ve decided to give you a little advice after seeing you lost in thought before my portrait during a recent Easter Prayer Breakfast.
“If the United States, a country with the world’s largest nuclear weapons stockpile, only pays lip service, like a parrot, and doesn’t do anything actively, it will be a mockery to the entire world.
“Hey, Obama, it’s the 21st Century. The tactic by past American presidents, including me, who deceived the people … is outdated.
“That doesn’t work now. The world doesn’t trust an America that doesn’t take responsibility for what it says.”
Tensions have been on the rise since North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, followed by a series of apparent ballistic missile tests.
The letter comes two weeks after North Korea threatened to lay waste to Washington with a submarine-launched nuclear missile in a menacing propaganda video.
The four-minute film ‘Last Chance’ runs through the history of US-Korea relations, including images of US prisoners of war on Korean soil.
In 2014, the North’s state news agency, KCNA, called Mr Obama a “monkey.” Earlier that year, it called Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous lantern jaw” after US and South Korean troops launched summertime drills.
The North has also called South Korean President Park Geun hye a “prostitute” numerous times.
