사진은 미국의 특사 Stephen Bosworth가 5월8일 금요일 인천공항을 통해 입국하고 있는 장면이다. 서울로 떠나기전 금요일 북경에서 가진 기자회견에서 그는 미국은 북한과 직접 회담할 준비가 되여있다고 밝힌바 있다. N. Korean Criticism of U.S. Has Familiar Ring U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth, center, arrives at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on Friday May 8, 2009. Bosworth, speaking in Beijing before heading to Seoul on Friday, said Washington is ready and willing to talk directly with Pyongyang. (AP Photo/JUNG Yeon-je, Pool) (Jung Yeon-je - AP) By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, May 8, 2009; 5:53 AM TOKYO, May 8 -- President Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush have at least this much in common: North Korea's suspicious and reclusive government doesn't like them. When Obama came into office, North Korean leaders said they saw an end to what they called the "regime change" policies of the Bush years and an opportunity for warmer relations with the United States. As a candidate, Obama said he would be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, if it would help remove nuclear weapons from the North. Kim's government, though, appears to have taken deep offense at the Obama administration for criticizing its long-range missile launch last month and for joining other members of the U.N. Security Council in demanding a halt to further launches. The North weighed in this week with a withering criticism of Obama's first 100 days (plus a week), judging it as "hostile" and "unchanged" from the Bush era. "The U.S. is a rogue and gangster of the world community," said a commentary this week in the state-controlled newspaper, Minju Joson. "Though the present U.S. administration put up the signboard of "change" and "multilateral cooperation diplomacy," it is, in essence, pursuing a unilateral policy little different from that of the Bush administration." Early in his presidency, Bush described North Korea, along with Iraq and Iran, as part of an "axis of evil." North Korea has threatened in recent days to conduct a second nuclear test and launch more missiles, unless the Security Council apologizes for criticizing its April launch. Kim's government stunned the world in 2006 with the test of a small nuclear device -- and goaded the Bush administration into direct nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang. Experts say North Korea has enough plutonium to make at least a half-dozen more bombs. South Korea's largest newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, reported this week that "brisk" activity has been detected at North Korea's nuclear test site. It quoted an unnamed South Korean government source as saying "we think the North is ready to conduct a test in the near future, if it wants to." While Obama sharply criticized the North's missile launch as a "provocation," his administration has been at pains to keep the door open for negotiations with Kim's government. Stephen Bosworth, the State Department's envoy to North Korea who is traveling this week in East Asia, emphasized an eagerness to talk. "The United States reiterates its desire to engage both multilaterally and bilaterally with North Korea," Bosworth told reporters Thursday in Beijing. "We believe very strongly that the solution to the tensions and problems of the area now lies in dialogue and negotiation." Arriving in Seoul for meetings on Friday, Bosworth was asked for his reaction to the North's most recent criticism of the United States. "I am not going to react to every statement coming out of North Korea," he told reporters. "I am here to have talks with the South Korean government." North Korea described its missile launch in April as a peaceful and successful effort to put a communication satellite into orbit, while the United States and many other countries characterized it as a test of a long-range ballistic missile. The U.S. military said the missile's payload never made it into orbit, splashing instead into the Pacific. After the Security Council condemned the launch last month, North Korea kicked U.N. nuclear inspectors out of the country, began efforts to restart its plutonium factory and vowed never again to participate in six-party nuclear negotiations.