"All-New" North Korea is Best Korea!

[TennoChinko]

[IparryU]

[YT]Iuz0TLOKnXE[/YT]

joke or is this serious?

[Greji]

joke or is this serious?

Absolutely serious. Saw it on Sesame Street.

[Netherlander]

I showed my wife, who is North Korean, this clip and she said the real Korea would never make (endorse) a film like this. So I call bull shit!:shake:

[Russell]

I showed my wife, who is North Korean, this clip and she said the real Korea would never make (endorse) a film like this. So I call bull shit!:shake:

You mean they only make comedies in North Korea?!?

[Netherlander]

[Russell]

[quote="Netherlander"]Also the biggest giveaway is the first shot of the video. It says]
Maybe the OP has a morbid sense of humor?

[Netherlander]

You mean they only make comedies in North Korea?!?

Of course it's funny as a You Tube clip:p , but that's all it is just a funny clip, not something created or sponsored by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[Russell]

Of course it's funny as a You Tube clip:p , but that's all it is just a funny clip, not something created or sponsored by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

So, you were worried people might start to think that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a fun country to visit?!?

[Netherlander]

So, you were worried people might start to think that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a fun country to visit?!?

Of course I'm not worried. If people want to visit North Korea, that's fine. Just getting a visa is extremely expensive. They make most of their tourism income from the visa. Then you also have to buy a different currency for tourists, which priced at an exorbitant rate.

[Taro Toporific]

...you also have to buy a different currency for tourists, which priced at an exorbitant rate.

I'd love to go surfing on Kim Jong Unchi's sunny beaches if North Korea sold tours at the street currency rate of about 800 North Korean won to $1 USD (rather than the official humorous rate of 131 won to one US dollar).

[Russell]

OK, Netherlander, with all respect, but you did not notice the cynical undertone in my posts? It is obvious that the OP was making fun of NK. That in itself is not strange, because it is a pastime on FG (see Taro's post here above).

Now, as to the question what is funnier, this video or the official broadcasts from NK, I firmly vote for the latter. NK's leadership is so outrageous in its behavior that it easily becomes the center of laughter, without the leadership apparently being aware of it themselves. So, yeah, NK is kind of fun to observe, weren't it for the nuisances it creates for its neighbors and the vast majority of its own population.

Will I ever want to visit NK? No thanks, I will never support such an horrible dictatorship. My only visit to a communist dictatorship (East-Berlin in the '80s for a couple of hours) was more than enough, though I realize how much of a paradise it must have been compared to NK.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I showed my wife, who is North Korean, this clip and she said the real Korea would never make (endorse) a film like this. So I call bull shit!:shake:

Is anyone with an IQ over 70 actually supposed to think this is real? And does your wife actually feel the need to defend NK?

[Netherlander]

[Coligny]

Reading youtoob's comments !?
You don't value your sanity much....

[Netherlander]

Reading youtoob's comments !?
You don't value your sanity much....

Couldn't help myself!:p

[IparryU]

[plaid_knight]

It's hard to tell which are more offensive or off-topic, the comments on youtube or the comments on news sites.

[Taro Toporific]

Naughty Korea hits back at medal tally taunts
NINEMSN.com.au | 2012 August 8
North Korea's state news agency has accused Australian commuter newspaper mX of "bullying" after the country was dubbed "Naughty Korea" in a recent Olympic medal tally.
While North Korea was given the "naughty" title, its democratic neighbour of South Korea was referred to as "Nice Korea" in the medal tally... the Korean Central News Agency labeled the newspaper's actions as "foolish" and "degrading" ...more...

[Tsuru]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Instead, the source said, North Korea was indeed trying to follow in the footsteps of China but was avoiding the phrase coined by Beijing because of an unfortunate quirk of the Korean language. "It won't be called 'reform and opening up' because it sounds like 'dog fart' in Korean," the source said.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-north-korea-plans-agriculture-reforms-source-205703516.html

[Samurai_Jerk]

Instead, the source said, North Korea was indeed trying to follow in the footsteps of China but was avoiding the phrase coined by Beijing because of an unfortunate quirk of the Korean language. "It won't be called 'reform and opening up' because it sounds like 'dog fart' in Korean," the source said.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-north-korea-plans-agriculture-reforms-source-205703516.html

It sounds like "dog fart" in any language.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Instead, the source said, North Korea was indeed trying to follow in the footsteps of China but was avoiding the phrase coined by Beijing because of an unfortunate quirk of the Korean language. "It won't be called 'reform and opening up' because it sounds like 'dog fart' in Korean," the source said.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-north-korea-plans-agriculture-reforms-source-205703516.html

It sounds like "dog fart" in any language.

He, he!

Mind you, I'd always thought the most repelling feature of "dog fart" was when it had no sound...

[Coligny]

They got nuthing' on cat farts btw...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

They got nuthing' on cat farts btw...

Not this again...

[Coligny]

Sorry...

[yanpa]

Gentlemen, if you would like to step this way...

[yanpa]

Choco Pies offer North Koreans a taste of the other side

Marshmallow-filled snacks from the South have achieved almost legendary status among Pyongyang residents

World leaders have tried aid, lectures, sanctions and engagement. But the long-term future of North Korea may be partly determined by a small, round, sugary snack from the South given as a reward to North Korean workers, say analysts.

"Choco Pies are an important mind-changing instrument," said Andrei Lankov, author of The Real North Korea and a leading expert on the country.

"It has become a symbol of South Korean prosperity – and North Koreans read it. They are suffering and starving, but thanks to Choco Pies, DVDs and large-scale labour migration to China, people don't buy the old story [that the South is even poorer] and the government does not sell it any more."

The chocolate-covered, marshmallow-filled snacks enter the North through the Kaesong industrial complex, which is run jointly with the South – although Pyongyang has pulled out its 50,000-plus workers.

...more...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Not at all surprised....oppai have been a major factor in keeping me in Japan for decades.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not at all surprised....oppai have been a major factor in keeping me in Japan for decades.

If you left Japan and tried a chocoppai you'd never go back.