Prakash Karat's faux pas

I was reading an editorial by Prakash Karat which got featured in Hindu on 20th August. Here is an excerpt:

“...Prior to the joint statement of July 2005, the UPA Government signed a ten-year Defence Framework Agreement with the Untied States.”

Seems it takes only a swap of vowels to untie the united states of the United States. Or it might have been a Freudian slip. Who knows?