US rescues NK ship from pirates and gets a public thank you.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribun ... _11_15.asp

"The pirates' recent armed attack on our trading ship was a grave terrorist act perpetrated against a peaceful ship," KCNA said. "It is the consistent principled stand of the [North Korean] government to oppose all sorts of terrorism,” it said.

"We will continue to render international cooperation in the fight against terrorism, in the future, too," said the official mouthpiece of North Korea, which has been on the U.S. list of countries that sponsor terrorism since 1988 and labeled by President Bush as part of an "axis of evil."

I think the point is that it's comically ironic.