By Xinhua,
Washington : What North Korea has been doing does not deserve international attention it wants to get, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
The top US diplomat Monday said in the “Good Morning America” programme of the ABC television that the Obama administration has changed its approach toward Pyongyang last month, after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test May 25 and test fired a series of ballistic missiles.
“We were not going to give North Korea the satisfaction they were looking for, which is to try to elevate them again to centre stage,” said Clinton.
The secretary even linked Pyongyang’s actions to that of “small children and unruly teenagers”.
“Maybe it is the mother in me or the experience that I’ve had with small children and unruly teenagers, and people who are demanding attention – don’t give it to them. They don’t deserve it,” she said.
Clinton, however, downplayed the threat North Korea poses to the US.
“They don’t pose a threat to us. We know that our allies – Japan and South Korea – are very concerned, but we share information. They watch what we watch and understand what’s really going on there,” she added.