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“Honey, what do want to see on vacation this year? The Parthenon, Machu Picchu, or the Kim Il-sung mausoleum?” You just can’t make this stuff up: according to Yonhap North Korea is “is trying to lure more foreign tourists” while at the same time telling their diplomatic representatives to flee due to imminent conflict. Huh? [...]
People often ask me “how do you write all those blog posts?” Well, here’s the secret: you keep a rolling list of non-timely posts so that if you are traveling, or uninspired, or if it’s just a slow news day, you have something to post. One sadly inexhaustible source of evergreens is the “kook file” [...]
A lot of people are poking fun at the antics of the North Koreans, and frankly we find it appropriate to keep a sense of gallows humor. We were amused, for example, at a piece in the New Yorker in which Kim Jong Un offers up a soliloquy on the stresses of being a full [...]
There are many” interesting” people that make up the North Korea watching community. This list now even includes the likes of Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters. A country of such idiosyncratic ways is bound to attract a wide range of observers. This week, we were reminded of one of the original “interesting” followers of North Korea. [...]
It’s no fun being a press secretary. Just ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell. You have to put up with incessant questioning about Dennis Rodman. Then there’s that bit about Pirate Bay, a torrent based file sharing website that often runs afoul of international copyright laws. You’ve probably never heard [...]
Yes, sports fans, it’s a March Madness themed Slave to the Blog. First up, Ambassador Rodman. Not content to bring peace to the Korean peninsula, where he is slated to vacation in August with BFFL Kim Jong-un, Worm is stepping up his game and heading for the Vatican. For what purpose, we’re not sure. But that’s [...]
Anyone familiar with the Korean Friendship Association is aware that there is no shortage of international wingbats willing to shill for North Korea’s leadership, but its not too common to find said wingbats right here in the USA. An article this week on KCNA, the DPRK’s state run news agency, introduces us to an American organization [...]
Unable to afford Superbowl ad rates, North Korea went the El Cheapo route, uploading an internet ad for one of its traditional products, “Belligerence.” Or at least that’s what the “North Korea taunts US with weird video” headlines would lead you to believe, but what’s really going on here? First, of all the ad is [...]
Back in the summer of 2011, following the FIFA Women’s World Cup, we reported on 5 North Korean players who tested positive for banned substances. Apparently, the reason for the positive tests was something referred to as Musk Deer gland medicine. We were reminded of this story this week as news broke that future hall of [...]
Earlier this week, countless media outlets including NBC’s the Today Show, NPR, and Time magazine were awash with rumors of unicorn sightings in North Korea. No, this wasn’t another Onion headline being mistakenly reported as fact, this was straight from the unicorn’s mouth, North Korean state media that is. It appears the English language version of [...]
