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I recently received the Peterson Institute website stats for the first two months of the year. Makes for some interesting reading. A post regarding North Korea Freedom Week made the Institute’s Top Ten downloads for the month of January. (Way to go, Suzanne!) We got lots of play via pingbacks at NK News, One Free Korea, and North Korean Economy Watch. (Thanks, guys!) Even NordKoreaInfo. (Danke!) But Alex Melton caught the most intriguing result—the Peterson website got a number of visitors who had searched on the term “Skrillex.” More visitors than were led to the Peterson site searching on the names of some of our senior fellows, in fact.
‘What is “Skrillex”?’ many of you may ask.
Well, back in January on a tip from Chris Udry, I posted a bunch of doctored photos of Kim Jong-il posing with various well known DJs. The photo with Skrillex is reproduced below:
In Alex’s words “He [Skrillex, not Kim Jong-il] is really popular with young hipsters right now. So 50 kids looking for dance music are now dedicated NK watchers thanks to you.”
So starting today, we’re instituting a new policy at the North Korea: Witness to Transformation blog: every post will contain a reference to Skrillex, LMFAO (the guys in the funny costumes who didn’t shoot the bird at the audience during Madona's Super Bowl extravagonzo), Hunger Games, or one of the Kardashians. (The first reader to link them to Kim Jong-un gets an autographed copy of Witness to Transformation.) As Alex observed, “if this is what it takes to repair the educational system of America…”
(I wonder if Daft Punk would count? I should ask Alex.)
Got it Google? This post is about Skrillex, LMFAO, Hunger Games, Madona, M.I.A. (who did shoot the bird at the Super Bowl audience) and Kim Kardashian.
And Kim Jong-un.
