The Fury of the Smoking Manure

USA Today has a long, interesting, and amusing read on North Korean propaganda, including some extensive quotes by B.R. Myers.  Read the whole thing on your own, but I can’t resist quoting this:

In a wild rhetorical flourish during a 2003 confrontation with the United States, state radio charged that the Earth itself was furious at the Americans and that even “piles of manure in the fields are fuming out smoke of hatred.”  [USA Today, Paul Wiseman]

I, for one, would be legitimately afraid if I ever saw that, especially if I had my office clothes on.  Wondering if this could be true, I tried and failed to confirm that it had been published on KCNA.  On the other hand, I wouldn’t be so sure Randi Rhodes didn’t say it first.

Related:   “It’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of madmen.”