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UK Mockumentary Contestant Wants to Give Kim Jong-un a Big Hug

The six finalists have been set for beActive Media‘s latest Digital Comedy LAB, a program that seeks to encourage budding UK and Irish YouTube mockumentary makers. Among this group is the North Korea-flavored entry Embracing Kim.

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Filed under: Humor, Kim Jong-un

Don’t Sweat the Nuclear Stuff

If Kim Jong-il were to ever pass on a dictator’s self-help guide to his succeeding son Kim Jong-un, it could very easily be titled Don’t Sweat the Nuclear Stuff. Think of it as the Juche version of Richard Carlson, author of perennial best-seller Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, who passed away in 2006 at the early age of 46.

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Filed under: Humor, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Movie Madness

Kim Jong-un Makes Like Heidi Montag

In November 2009, reality TV show star Heidi Montag went under the knife for ten different plastic surgery procedures in one day. It was, she insisted, all part of her effort to become the “best of me.”

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Filed under: DPR-Krazy, Kim Jong-un

A Country Where Every Day is Father’s Day

I often find myself inspired to blog about North Korea whenever a major Western holiday rolls around. That’s because at those particular points, the contrast between our system of beliefs and that of the subjugated residents of North Korea seems to resonate even more bizarrely than usual.

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Filed under: Commentary, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-un Gets Rubber-Stumped

So much for a de facto coronation.

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Filed under: Kim Jong-un

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