Palin says she will stand with North Korean allies

Malaysia Sun Thursday 25th November, 2010

The former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has made a serious blunder on US radio after saying "the United States needs to stand with our North Korean allies."

Obviously confusing North and South Korea, she had been asked her opinion of the outbreak of hostilities on the Korean peninsula.

Ms Palin, a favourite with the Tea Party movement, has previously been criticised for her lack of foreign policy knowledge.

She told her interviewer: “Well, North Korea, this is stemming from a greater problem, when we’re all sitting around asking, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do,’ and we’re not having a lot of faith that the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is going to do. So this speaks to a bigger picture that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies."

Ms Palin, corrected by the interviewer, then said the US needed to press China to put more pressure on North Korea.