'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang

[TexasLawyer]

LOL If you've seen the movie, including its classic scenes featuring Kim Jong Il and "Hans Brix," you'll know how funny this story is.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453411.0520833335.html

'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang

Special to World Tribune.com
EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
Wednesday, February 9, 2005


The caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies.

Word from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is that the North Korean embassy there is asking the government to ban the film, the creation of Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame.
The Czech Foreign Ministry, however, said the North Koreans had been rebuffed in their effort to undermine the Czech Republic's post-Communist era freedom. The film shows marionettes attempting to stop Kim Jong-Il from destroying cities around the globe.

A Czech newspaper, Lidove Noviny, reports that a North Korean diplomat complained that the film "harms the image of our country." He was even quoted as saying, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture."

[Cush]

1. they're a little late is responding

[TexasLawyer]

3. no movie distribution, theaters, popcorn, DVD players, overseas mail,

etc.. puts N. Korea a little behind the times. It looks like it's only because the movie was playing in Prague that these N. Korean officials knew about it (and figured out that they should strongly condemn the film, since they all probably snuck off to the theater and watched it. OOh they're in trouble!).

[solinvictus]

2. Is Kim feeling...

a rittle ronery these days???

[TexasLawyer]

4. Kim is still SO very ronery

N. Koreans can't go to see his movie, so nobody there knows that he is a rate-brooming star.

I read that Matt Stone predicts that Kim -- rumored to be a film and musical buff -- will "see this movie ... and cry."

[Book Lover]

5. "the film "harms the image of our country." "?

No, the forced starvation of its citizenry does the job there, dearie...