The Hen Clucks at the White House...

and Team America meets DPRK state radio. BBC News reports on a "special weekend feature" that recently aired in North Korea:

The programme - called "The hen clucks at the White House" - marks the first time the North Korean media have been seen to use a form known as "manp'il", or "comic notes".

Ms Rice, who in January included North Korea in a list of six "outposts of tyranny", is introduced as "a hen strutting around in the White House, crowing arrogantly".

Later she is characterised as "a bitch running riot on the beach".

Mr Rumsfeld is portrayed as having ruled the roost during President
Bush's first term, but is now little more than an ageing cockerel "keeping a low profile".

And the actor playing Ms Rice brands him "an old crock".

The satirist is not named, but my money is on North Korea's only playwright (celebrated by North Korea's most beloved drama critic). In the spirit of profiting from the sale of evil books, you can snag a copy of Kim Jong Il's On the Art of Opera: Talk to Creative Workers in the Field of Art and Literature here.

Comments

lil kim | June 1, 2005, 2:18pm | #

DPRK - fuck yeah!

E. Steven | June 1, 2005, 2:27pm | #

Seattle area Reasonoids and bad movie fans have an opportunity this month to watch the rarely seen North Korean Godzilla knockoff Pulgasari at the Northwest Film Forum! For further info go here:

http://wigglyworld.org/pulgasari/

stubby | June 1, 2005, 2:46pm | #

Believe it or not, when the papers ran that picture of Condi reviewing the troops in her Dominatri-Matrix boots and coat, I remember thinking: I bet that freak Kim is gonna love this woman. Albright didn't do much for him, but Condi is going to appeal to him on several distinctly icky levels.

Shawn Smith | June 1, 2005, 3:00pm | #

stubby,

I remember reading that Dear Leader was quite attracted to Albright when she visited North Korea in the late 90's. Just some more ickyness to consider. :-)

Jennifer | June 1, 2005, 3:33pm | #

I can only hope the humor was lost somewhere in the translation. "Have you ever noticed that the quality of food you get on airplanes is very low? Whyever should this be the case? Forsooth, it is a mystery."

SPD | June 1, 2005, 4:00pm | #

He's... so... ronery....

stubby | June 1, 2005, 4:18pm | #

"The hen clucks at the White House" would make a great supersecret password. Pass phrase?

Number 6 | June 1, 2005, 4:26pm | #

It can't be a bad thing that North Koreans (or at least one of them) have the freedom to call Condi a bitch. Maybe they'll learn to enjoy hurling insults at political leaders.

R C Dean | June 1, 2005, 5:30pm | #

"The hen clucks at the White House" would make a great supersecret password. Pass phrase?

Why, "the bitch runs riot on the beach," of course.

Isaac Bartram | June 1, 2005, 5:35pm | #

See the North Koreans are just as free as we are. They can criticize the Bush Administration without fear of reprisal too.

SPD | June 1, 2005, 5:44pm | #

Next week on WKJI:

The Falcon Has Landed

The Fat Man Walks Alone

Jerry | June 1, 2005, 8:42pm | #

Even if he got drunk on rice wine, I don't believe Kim found Albright attractive.

Russell | June 1, 2005, 10:36pm | #

Amazon Reviewer: Jim Turner "Kim" (Tokyo, Japan) gives the Dear leader five stars for his libretto--

"***** This makes up for his killing my family,
I narrowly escaped, Kim Jong Il ordered my entire family put to death for owning a foreign radio.

But reading this makes up for all of that, Hail Great Leader!"

The Goon Show | June 1, 2005, 11:27pm | #

"Duck!"

"That's not a duck, it's a chicken!"

"We're being SHELLED!"

"What a FOWL trick!"

"Stop cracking YOLKS!"

raymond | June 2, 2005, 12:34am | #

The amazon reviews of the Kim book make the existence of the book itself worthwhile.

Especially that of Cinderella Bloggerfeller.

raymond | June 2, 2005, 12:41am | #

Whoever Cinderella Bloggerfeller is, he makes the existence of amazon worthwile!