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In latest N. Korean turmoil, Chaz Bono promoted to Supreme Leader

Forget what I said this week — North Korea is still funny. Look what a reader spotted on this apparently official North Korean propaganda video, posted on YouTube at a channel that has always posted authentic North Korean material in the past.

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If this is a fake, well, they fooled me. Note the logo on the upper left-hand corner, which appears in some other apparently legit videos posted at the same channel.

The video was a compilation of stills and video from around the world intended to show how much we all love/fear/respect Kim Jong Un. Whatever the impact domestically, I’m afraid the impact internationally will be very much the opposite.

If anyone knows how to preserve or download a YouTube video, please do, before “StimmeKoreas” (it means “Voice of Korea” in German) catches on and pulls this down.

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Update: This post was corrected after publication.

9 Responses

  1. Classic. Didn’t KCNA re-publish an Onion article about naming KJU the “world’s sexiest man”?

  3. >If anyone knows how to preserve or download a YouTube video, please do, before “StimmeKoreas” (it means “Voice of Korea” in Dutch, and probably a few other Northern European languages) catches on and pulls this down.
    I got a copy with downloadhelper. Email me if you need a copy of the video.

  4. …don’t know a word of Korean, but the cadence and intonation of the narration fascinated me. I couldn’t stop listening. Something about it seemed…familiar. Then I had it: old Imperial Japanese newsreels from WWII.

    Color video, but, in an important sense, identical propaganda to WWII.

  6. >(it means “Voice of Korea” in Dutch, and probably a few other Northern European languages)
    I’m not sure if that was a joke, but “Stimme Koreas” means “Voice of Korea” in German, and only in German.
    It is possible to download from Yt etc. using clive or cclive, free open-source software.