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Friday fun Smörgåsbord

1. Lots of artistic depictions of the DPRK’s traffic girls.

2. A North Korean defector runs a restaurant in the DC area.  I will have to check it out soon.

3. Hollywood is out of ideas.  Red Dawn, which I will confess to enjoying in my youth, is being remade.  This time the North Koreans are invading.  Really.

4. James Gandolfini (AKA Tony Soprano) will be portraying New Jersey’s Bar-B-Q ambassador to the DPRK. Non-fiction. Really.

5. DPRK advises people to use pets as earthquake early warning system.

6. Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided.

7. Aidan Foster-Carter really dislikes Homefront.

8. Protips for increased dictator longevity.

 

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  • Mieu

    Red Dawn’s screenwriter also worked on Homefront, a video game released last month depicting NK invasion.

  • Mieu

    Oh… just saw the AFC article after hitting the send button. My bad.

    Like his analysis. Homefront’s plot is so bad it’s good!

  • Stopped by the Alexandria restaurant last week and ordered the seafood pancake, pork, pheasant dumplings, and blood sausage (http://twitpic.com/4cun1i). Delicious, and much better than anything I ate in Pyongyang!

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