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I’m trying to be all shocked and outraged

I’m trying really, really hard to feel menaced. I really am. But. I dunno.

If you haven’t seen the North Korean propaganda YouTube everyone’s talking about, go see it now. No, I mean it — if you want to see it, go now. Copies are being taken down as quickly as they’re uploaded, on account of it violates Activision’s copyright.

Yeah. The games company. That scary bomb-America footage was stolen from the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. And the soundtrack is a tinkly piano version of We Are the World.

Are you askeert yet? Because there’s also a sleeping Korean, dreaming his dreamy dreams of world domination, and smiling in his sleep. And an occasional swoosh of sparkly stars, like the one that wafted out of Tinkerbell’s wand in the introduction to Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. B-r-r-r-ing.

If this were any scarier, it could be an episode of My Little Pony.

Comments


Comment from grizzly
Time: February 6, 2013, 12:03 am

If this were any scarier, it could be an episode of My Little Pony.

The perfect epitaph to this piece of toe-jam. That made my day right there.


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 1:32 am

That’s not what the translation says …
Americans are a paranoid lot.
So stopping pissing in the Korean pond, and you won’t have anything to worry about!
Well, not exactly …. you’ve pissed off every country on the planet!
The French are even now more popular than Americans.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 6, 2013, 1:36 am

Ah, purest gibberish. You don’t often see it so close to the bone.


Comment from EZnSF
Time: February 6, 2013, 2:02 am

Think if we gave the Norks New Zealand and gave China Australia, they would leave the rest of us alone? Bet we could make a deal. With the help of the French, of course.


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 2:56 am

I’m sure that North Korea could run this place better than the American Shylock Jew banker that does now? He gets his orders from Washington and flees to his home in Hawaii as much as he can. Google Street view doesn’t show his address.

Translation from your New York Times:

“I had a dream last night, a dream of soaring into space on board our Unha-9 rocket. Our Kwangmyongsong-21 spacecraft got separated from the rocket and traveled through space. I see stars and the green Earth. I also see a unified Korea. Meanwhile, I see black smoke rising somewhere in America,” the dreaming man says. “It appears that the headquarters of evil, which has had a habit of using force and unilateralism and committing wars of aggression, is going up in flames it itself has ignited. Just imagine riding in a Korean spaceship. One day, my dream will come true. No matter how hard the imperialists try to isolate and stifle us, they will not stop our people’s path toward our final victory of achieving a unified, strong and prosperous Korea.”


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 2:58 am

End of the day.
Stop putting sanctions on North Korea.
Well, not unless you want to go to war with them?

🙂


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: February 6, 2013, 3:36 am

So you’re a 20-something year-oid NORK Propaganda Officer tasked with creating something to put out to the world on that internet thingie. Since your dad is a rich, powerful and trusted guy (which is how you got the job), you have a new Mac and a ton of software from the west including Call of Duty. One day you realize that you can save yourself a ton of work by pirating most of your stuff from a game that you’ve been playing while you were supposed to be working, because you know, Uncle Lee and the gang never play any video games so they won’t recognise it, and you call take all the credit! Hell yeah!


Comment from Anony Mouse
Time: February 6, 2013, 4:05 am

“I’m sure that North Korea could run this place better than the American Shylock Jew banker that does now?”

What a sad, strange little world you live in. What color is the sky there?


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 4:18 am

I would be more concerned about that Plutonium Processing Factory in Jersey … Pu flushed into the sewer … now a bulldozed clean park site where children play.
Then there is the C-124 Globemaster that lost two nukes off the coast of Delaware in 1957 … then there was a nuclear weapons fire at a missile base that was hosed into a creek …

Every major US city has lethal amounts of Plutonium spread around like strawberry jam.

Sky? Kiwi-Blue … no Jew!


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 5:20 am

Or Pu!

🙂


Comment from tomfrompv
Time: February 6, 2013, 6:01 am

North Korea is such a POS country it has to steal scenes from a video game? Very sad place. One side did lose in the Korean War and it wasn’t the South, obviously.

Perhaps their video will include scenes from an actual disaster movie? War of the Worlds?


Comment from tomfrompv
Time: February 6, 2013, 6:25 am

Ok, just read the banter about the Korean pond being fouled by Shylock Jew piss! I presume Oceania means the Sea of Japan, the body of water between our allies in Japan ane the Korean Peninsula.

Some “pond”. And some Shylock that can piss that far!

Anyways, if only Obama WOULD take orders. Then maybe we’d get a budget, decent policy, and an end to the recession.


Comment from MIke C.
Time: February 6, 2013, 8:58 am

Letting nuts like Oceania run around loose is why we have tragedies like Newtown.

And what is it with the radiation thing? Hope he doesn’t have granite countertops in his kitchen…


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 9:45 am

Look Mike C.
K40 and uranyl decay series from granite is not really an issue. The fact that the Average American (borrowing a thought from Frank Zappa here) doesn’t know their alpha beta or gamma – or their history – is of prime concern.
North Korea wishes to test some weapons.
So What?
Big Deal.
You went bat-shit insane at us for going anti-nuclear – and even assassinated our prime minister over it.
Well excuse me for the Hypocrisy moment of Schizophrenia that is US foreign Policy ‘Must have nukes at all costs versus North Korea can’t have them!’

Gee – I’m CONFUSED!!! Schizophrenia strikes again … while children play in streams full of plutonium waste in your own country.

Winner! Not!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 6, 2013, 12:55 pm

You just never know what’s going to set it off.


Comment from mojo
Time: February 6, 2013, 3:35 pm

Unstable. We know.


Comment from nightfly
Time: February 6, 2013, 5:26 pm

Well, O, the big diff is that the US hasn’t nuked anyone in 57+ years, and isn’t likely to. The NoDaks would roast Seoul and Tokyo in a cold minute, and not wait for a world war either.

Anony, I’m sure the sky is blue in O’s fair country, but he’s crammed so far up his own hindmost, he’s looking out of his own nose at it.


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: February 6, 2013, 5:44 pm

When the Norks win, and they achieve a worldwide socialist paradise, We’ll all get to eat our dead children and pray for the dear leader.

Yay?


Comment from mojo
Time: February 6, 2013, 7:50 pm

Behold!

The wonder that is the Banjosaurus!


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 6, 2013, 7:53 pm

Sweet fancy Moses. KILL IT WITH FIRE!


Comment from Oceania
Time: February 6, 2013, 7:56 pm

US not nuking anyone? That’s not entirely true.
Given the U235 residues in Iraq … I’d put good money on there being a new toy or two …

End of the day, if you keep pushing North Korea, you’ll get the response that you want. A justification of policy. of course, whether New York, Washington, Seoul or Tokyo is there to see it is another Question.
Tokyo is now more radioactive than if it had been nuked …. TEPCO style!


Comment from Anonymous
Time: February 6, 2013, 8:09 pm

It’s a good thing they didn’t use the “Do They Know It’s Christmas” theme or they’d have Bob Geldof in a flying snit.


Comment from Davem123
Time: February 6, 2013, 9:41 pm

“Priced with a Deering Hardshell Case.”

At just shy of $64K it had better have a case, and somebody to carry it home for you, too.


Comment from mojo
Time: February 6, 2013, 10:36 pm

…and your own polisher/tuner, who lives above the garage…


Comment from Veeshir
Time: February 6, 2013, 10:48 pm

See, if it was me I would have used “Wonderful World”.

Sure We Are the World (we are the children) is funny, but c’mon.

They’re just phoning in the crazy anymore.


Comment from Pablo
Time: February 7, 2013, 4:29 am

End of the day, if you keep pushing North Korea, you’ll get the response that you want.

They’ll kidnap PSY and throw him in a forced labor camp? Kewl.


Comment from TwoDogs
Time: February 7, 2013, 6:06 pm

I can’t hear that music without thinking of this :
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/index.php?/last-dragon-movie-reviews.html


Comment from Gibby Haynes
Time: February 7, 2013, 8:06 pm

I like how the North Koreans call their rockets dongs.

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