President Bush urged Americans late on January 29 to be patient with the war on terrorism, to be steadfast in the protection of the United States and to know that creating new jobs is the best cure for the U.S. economy wounded by September 11. The president singled out North Korea, Iran and Iraq for seeking weapons of mass destruction. "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world," he said, adding the civilized world must act because the "price of indifference would be catastrophic," Bush said.