In a statement carried on the website of the US embassy in Tokyo, the state department said: "Japan is a valued ally and friend.
"Apparently, they have not learned their lesson from the miserable author of the Satanic Verses," they said in a statement carried on the official IRNA news agency.
The statement, carried on the official Web site of the North, Uriminzokkiri.com, was the new leadership's first comment on a South Korean policy since it announced on Monday that Mr. Kim had died of a heart attack last Saturday.
"Peace talks are not a crisis management exercise to be invoked at the pleasure of a government which is on the verge of a collapse," the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said in a statement carried on the Tamilnet Web site.
The Saudi-led coalition said in a statement carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Friday that it had begun an investigation to "verify whether the news is true".
By agreeing to join in the attacks, and by defending his decision in an eloquent Downing Street statement carried on international television, Mr. Blair gave Mr. Clinton political cover against his partisan critics.
"Concerning those who announced stopping their assistance to Egypt or threatening to stop them, the Arab and Islamic nation is rich with its people and capabilities and will lend a helping hand," Prince Saud said, in a statement carried on the Saudi Press Agency's Web site.
"We are celebrating the 29th anniversary of the revolution as society is preparing for the eighth parliamentary elections and we have witnessed one of the ugliest events in the history of our revolution," the party, Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution Organization, said in a statement carried on reformist Web sites.
In a statement carried on Breitbart's website, Bannon said, "I'm proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform". Bannon declined to comment when reached Tuesday evening.
In a statement carried on Mauritanian media, the Signed-in-Blood Battalion said it would hold the Algerian and French governments and the nations of the hostages responsible if its demands were not met, saying they must bring an end to the French intervention in Mali.
