Video: North Korean propaganda exposes hellish Orwellian experience of American life; Update: Fake
posted at 3:21 pm on March 13, 2013 by Allahpundit
Via Danger Room, a reminder that NorK propaganda is so over the top that it’s difficult to tell the real thing from a heavy-handed fake. Is this real or just someone’s idea of a goof? On the one hand, it makes sense as a crude way to keep up morale in a nation-sized prison camp where the people are so poor that they have to eat grass. Convince them that the rest of the world, including and especially their archenemy, lives the same way and suddenly life under the Kim dynasty doesn’t seem so bad. That explains the odd focus here on Americans drinking snow, I take it: By comparison, North Koreans’ foliage-based standard of living looks high. On the other hand, c’mon. What’s that goofy bit in the middle about a former Republican pol from Oregon doing here? Even North Koreans surely know that Bob Packwood’s doing better than that. And in fairness, the coffee at my local convenience store does taste like it’s made from snow.
I’ll give them one thing: Gun violence among the population there surely is lower, for very good authoritarian reasons.
Update (3/16): Nope, it’s a fake.
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I’m thinking “nuts” would be an appropriate response.
Eloquent, concise, and effective.
All things our diplomats are incapable of today.
BobMbx on April 24, 2013 at 5:25 PM
When a million people are starved to death, it’s a
nearcertainty that some will resort to cannibalism.RadClown on April 24, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Obama reminding lil kim that he’s got big balls of brass.
nonpartisan on April 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Umm… John Kerry said they had ballistic nuclear missiles…
Seems the Norks want us to treat them as such.
Frankly the smart move would’ve had Obama calling for them to submit to UN regulations regarding nuclear states before any further talks can go forward…
But y’know I’m just a gun ownin’ redneck conservative and don’t understand such complexities like the lightbringer…
Skywise on April 24, 2013 at 5:38 PM
North Korea is pretty much never going to be taken seriously again, after the last months, unless they actually go to war with someone. The shrill and hysterical rhetoric was basically open threats of nuclear war and they are clearly backing down.
Doomberg on April 24, 2013 at 5:41 PM
If the REB accepts this as he eventually will, Japan has no choice but to build nuclear weapons.
slickwillie2001 on April 24, 2013 at 5:42 PM
North Korea wants to be recognized as a NUCKED country? Someone can make that a fact but not Obama.
meci on April 24, 2013 at 5:46 PM
I say just we do it, already. We wouldn’t want them to nuke us out of frustration over common misconceptions of their nation and culture.
abobo on April 24, 2013 at 5:46 PM
seriously? With THOSE hats?!
kirkill on April 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Kermit Gosnell’s defense: he thought he was in North Korea.
rbj on April 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Nice accessories to the platform boots they wear.
hawkeye54 on April 24, 2013 at 5:58 PM
Considering his work environment, that would be an easy mistake to make.
hawkeye54 on April 24, 2013 at 5:59 PM
Years ago, I read the nonfiction book by William Craig upon which the film of the same title ‘Enemy At the Gates’ was based. After the German defeat at Stalingrad, some German POWs in Siberia became mad with hunger and resorted to cannibalism. These starving prisoners started roving in packs, scavenging for fresh corpses, but soon began attacking other prisoners. Eventually, (still-sane) German officers and NCOs convinced the Russians to give them crowbars so that they could organize and systematically hunt down the cannibals. Until now, that was one of the worst substantiated true stories I knew about.
The horror story that is North Korea just goes on and on. I can’t think of a single people in the history of the world–at least in modern history–who has suffered more than they have.
troyriser_gopftw on April 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Well, looks like they will have to drop one on somebody.
jake49 on April 24, 2013 at 6:12 PM
I wonder how much those North Korean military hats weigh?
bw222 on April 24, 2013 at 6:29 PM
They do that, and the Norks will likely get full recognition ….probably more than they’re demanding.
hawkeye54 on April 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM
North Korea may be the biggest casualty of the Boston Bombing and the manhunt for the terrorist. It sure wiped their ranting’s right out of the media news cycle, and now, nobody gives a crap.
Wallythedog on April 24, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Obama should announce that NK does not know the first thing about nuclear power, their whole country is always without electricity.
KenInIL on April 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM
Setting off a few tons of TNT underground doesn’t merit such recognition-whatever that means anyway.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 25, 2013 at 12:19 AM
Well they DO demand that they be called the DEMOCRATIC People’s Republic of Korea.
And in similar fashion we have a DEMOCRATIC Party that is lead by a narcissitic twit a.k.a King Putt.
There was a diplomatic message sent to Washington from Little Kim Jong-un that read: We will destroy America, its spirit and their economy.
Our Dear Liar, President Present replied back: Too Late!
Remember when he leaves office in Janurary 2015 … HIDE ALL OF THE TELEPROMPTERS. OK?
Missilengr on April 25, 2013 at 3:59 PM