North Korea

I saw a clip on YouTube of a North Korean martial arts movie. It seemed pretty good. I know next to nothing about North Korean viewing habits, but it's been reported that bootleg videotapes of South Korean soap operas are popular there. That was a few years ago. They may have switched to DVD by now.

This came up again when that pro-assassination "comedy" made by sex-offender James Franco and blood-thirsty Zionist Seth Rogen was made. The US government wanted the movie produced so copies of it would find their way into North Korea.

If you look at the RT website you may be able to find a documentary about North Korea that had some focus on their movie industry. The documentary followed North Korean rules----for example, any images of North Koran leader has to be shown in full---it couldn't be at the edge of the frame only half-visible. This meant that they couldn't pan away from a picture of him. If there was picture of the guy in the background of a shot, they couldn't pan past it.

I saw on one news report that children in North Korean schools were reading To Kill a Mockingbird. They're not Marxist-Leninist, by the way. The works of Marx and Lenin have been banned there for years. As I understand it, their national ideology is a mix of Korean mysticism and Confucianism. Mao Tse Tung denounced Confucianism as reactionary.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the North Koreans using old Lincoln limousines at Kim Il Jong's funeral. The North Korean auto industry exports cars, mostly to Vietnam, but it doesn't sound like they produce anything interesting or retro. If the US were to start importing North Korean cars, I'm sure I would be disappointed.