According to the North Korean domestic press, the latest assault of American imperialism is on time itself. In several fiery diatribes made during the past few months, the North Korean regime uses the construct of time to criticize the Obama administration’s policy of “strategic patience” or waiting to negotiate with North Korea until it moves towards denuclearization. Lines such as “Time does not pass for the sake of America” and “America races against time in their nuclear confrontation with North Korea,” express the North Korean regime’s unwillingness to cooperate with what it sees as nuclear blackmail – crippling