Weekend at Bernie’s 3

by Dram_man on November 17, 2008

I usually don’t cover the North Korean beat, but this is really beginning to remind me of a bad sequel to a classic movie.

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 November 17, 2008 at 10:11 am: excellent analogy.
2 roboseyo November 17, 2008 at 10:26 am: from the article:

“North Korean leader Kim Jong-il attended a military art performance”

I’m mostly just curious what a military art performance looks like.
3 Sonagi November 17, 2008 at 10:43 am: military art = martial arts

Whoever wrote the piece translated literally the two characters in 무술 (武術).
4 Koreander November 17, 2008 at 11:18 am: Since the Great Leader’s feet aren’t touching ground in any of the pics, I guess he is really watching over us.
5 roboseyo November 17, 2008 at 11:32 am: Thank you sonagi. That explanation was much less interesting than my mental images of found-art sculptures of the Dear Father made out of parts of disassembled rifles and artillery pieces, with soldiers in body-suits doing slow-motion battle-scene reenactments while somebody dressed in black reads terrible poetry into a microphone.
6 abcdefg November 17, 2008 at 12:18 pm: ‘Weekend at Bernies’
7 CactusMcHarris November 17, 2008 at 12:33 pm: #5,

Although grateful for Sonagi’s multigraphical explanation, I like yours better, and, really, when you think about it, the weirdness factor is quite appropriate for the DPRK.
8 SomeguyinKorea November 18, 2008 at 8:49 am: I wonder why NK isn’t releasing videos of Kim Jong Il discussing current world events. That would put an end to the “evil rumors” that he’s a vegetable.