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Via Keith, N Korea hits back at Bush's 'evil' tag:

Carrying echoes of both Ronald Reagan's 'Evil Empire' speech in the 1980s and implying similarities with the Axis alliance between Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1940s, the label is one of the harshest used by a U.S. administration to describe North Korea.

In the past, North Korea, Iraq and Iran have been described as a "rogue states" whose military policy and support of other groups are seen by Washington as a threat to its security.

The United States, Bush said, would not permit "the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."

However, White House officials have since sought to clarify that the naming of North Korea, Iraq and Iran does not signify any imminent military action against them.

They say rather it is designed to put them on notice that Washington is keeping them under close surveillance.

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