A hit North Korean music video...

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North Korean music = Vogon poetry?

I really think they have a similar effect on the listener....

Friends of Kim

I'm watching a film on Link TV. Link TV is as far left as Fox News is far right, to put it in perspective.

They are so far left in showing this film its a little out of my league, but I've been curious about North Korea even before they could land a nuclear warhead in Las Vegas or Phoenix.

The film is about a march, pro-North Korea, to be held in Pyongyang. Naturally they will say all kinds of pro Korea, pro Kim Il Sung pablum that will make everyone with the little red DPRK flag pin on their shirt feel warm fuzzies inside mixed in with music that sounds like cats singing along with minor key chromatic scales being played.

They have Alejandro Cao de Benos, the Spaniard president of the Korean Friendship Organization. I've read about him a few times - but never saw him. Watching his body language - gotta check the gay box.

In short, every single one of these blokes from Spain and England are from posh families and I'm sure it pisses their mums and dads off to no end that they're spending the trust fund on this globetrotting.

The film is called Friends of Kim. It's a very "potemkin village" view of the DPRK. Looks to be a neat watch if you hold your nose a bit to keep the stench of the dogma down a bit.

inside North Korea on National Geographic

It was very interesting to see the inside of what the North Koreans consider to be an "average family's" apartment. I'm not sure which were the dead giveaways that they were high up in the party - the Karaoke machine, multiple electric fans, the 21-inch TV (with what was likely a VCR below it!!!!) and the electric rice cooker were all high on the list.

A VCR would be notable because South Korean soap operas on VHS are very popular in NK but no one would ever admit that on camera.

The child used the Karaoke machine to sing a song that was probably originally composed by cats. I've heard it before through my window.

Nervous laughter translates in any language. The government tour guide / minder who was translating the conversation wiped his brow and laughed nervously before he translated to the group of loyal party members. The reporter had asked about nuclear weapons, oops.