Following it’s previous forays into social media (Twitter and Youtube, respectively), North Korea has now established a presence on Facebook. Registered under the username ‘uriminzokkiri’, North Korea hopes to use the popular networking site as a means of pushing propaganda to the West and their friendly neighbor to the south (that would be South Korea, in case you’re geographically-challenged). A [...]
Ginseng root kind of looks like a really creepy, mutated Lovecraftian monster-person. Yet the Czechs are apparently willing to accept 20 tons of the stuff as payment for debt incurred by…AnaKhouri’s favorite fucked-up country, North Korea! BBC Article They’ve owed this debt since ‘the Soviet era’- so, twenty years, give or take a couple. I think the Czech Republic should [...]
North Korea’s soccer team might suck (according to their atrocious performance at the World Cup- but hey, anyone can have an off…two weeks), but is that any reason to sit them down and have the entire government yell at them for six hours? And then make the coach perform manual labor? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10935521 (all of this is alleged, which goes without [...]
4chan’s latest prank has seemingly obligated horrifying pop sensation Justin Bieber to a tour of North Korea. It seems the Beebs held a Twitter contest for fans to vote on the country the mop-headed terror should visit – predictably, 4chan got their foot in the door and skewed the results towards their venue of choice – namely North Korea. Of [...]
A guy in South Korea has been arrested after he sold a gadget that he claimed made tap water into holy water with healing properties. Holy Crap Why would you need a evice to make holy water? The pope can make it just by waving his hands around and saying stuff. Or maybe you could make holy water by taking [...]
Increased radiation levels detected by South Korean researchers lent a smidge of evidence to North Korea’s claim to have made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. I say a smidge, because nuclear fusion is something of a holy grail for energy researchers – a viable nuclear fusion reactor would create tremendous amounts of energy at little cost or harm to [...]
And here’s the most disturbing of today’s ”strange shit” posts. A museum in Vienna is holding an exhibition of North Korean art.This is causing controversy, probably because it is giving people nightmares. Speaking at the opening of the exhibition, the director of the Korean Art Gallery in Pyongyang, Han Chang Gyu, says he hopes these artworks “with their depiction of [...]
I should preface this by saying that I am no expert in foreign relations; my only experience in that field is occasionally shooting up people from the U.K. in Modern Warfare 2 Xbox Live matches (well, and calling my relatives on the other side of the planet every once in a while). With tensions rising between North and South Korea, [...]
That crew cut! Those glasses! The jumpsuit! How can you resist the allure of KIM JONG-IL, FASHION PLATE? Vogue! The article quoted an unidentified French fashion expert as saying world fashion follows Kim Jong-Il’s style. “Kim Jong-Il mode which is now spreading expeditiously worldwide is something unprecedented in the world’s history,” the stylist was quoted as saying. Ah, yes, French [...]
The African Renaissance Monument, a 160ft tribute to the chiseled abs of the Senegalese male population, was dedicated on April 4th after four years of construction. The statue is the product of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade’s fevered imagination and tons of backbreaking labor provided by North Korean contractor Mansudae Overseas Projects. If you’re wondering how a struggling African nation like [...]
I hate cell phones. Sometimes I still work at the bookstore, and I fucking hate those idiots who stand in line yapping about stupid shit while you’re trying to check them out. I hate idiots who drive while babbling on their cell phones. Worst of all I hate the cretins who just absolutely have to have intensely private conversations about [...]
North Korea’s Dear Leader turned 68 this week….or did he? That picture with the article has a serious “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe going on. Hmmmm… What do get the man who has everything, including thousands of people he can order around as he pleases? Well, rare animals of course! Like the Sumatran rhino, which Kim single-handedly brought back from the [...]
My obsession with the freakishness that is North Korea led me to this article about North Korean designer jeans – now available in Sweden! Noko Jeans Apparently America only makes blue denim jeans, because North Korea only makes black denim jeans because they hate America so much. I guess they never studied 80′s fashions… $220 for jeans? How stupid is [...]
Not much to comment on here, as this is one of the least weird things I’ve heard about Kim Jong-il. It’s just funny that North Korea’s all-powerful Dear Leader is scared to fly. What a baby. Dear Leader Takes Over the Island of Sodor…
A UK website has posted photos allegedly taken inside North Korea. But these aren’t of nuclear reactors or an ailing Kim Jong-il. They’re of something much more important: An arcade. Pyongyang Arcade I don’t know anything about the games, except they’re apparently ‘vintage’ (meaning really, really old). I’m just struck by how utterly… joyless the place looks. I wonder what [...]