North Korea ’ s self-styled Dear Leader was accumulating fissile material and deceiving Bill Clinton , then US president , long before Mr Bush ’ s speechwriters gave him that fateful phrase about an axis of evil .

早在布什的演讲撰稿人发明邪恶轴心这个词以前，朝鲜亲爱的领袖就在积累裂变材料，并欺骗当时的美国总统克林顿（billclinton）。