North Korean animation

Well, this was an interesting find in ye olde’ feedreader this evening…

Seems when they’re not busy making nukes and being a general menace in Asia the fellas up in NoKo bang out their own animated TV shows for the kiddos to watch. Guess they gotta do something while they slowly starve in their bunker society. Thing is, on a TV level this stuff isn’t half bad. Oh it’s not good, no. But it’s not horrible like I expected, either. I’ve seen worse on US air/cable-waves, that’s for sure. Of course the stories might be a tad, um… “different”. To quote the story…

It ain’t exactly Warner Bros.—the cartoons are designed to “implant into the minds of children warm patriotism and towering hatred for the enemy,” according to official news agency KCNA.

All I gotta say is if you’re gonna have hatred for your enemies, make sure it’s not some half hearted wimpy hatred, but a towering hatred.

Check the full report from the Foreign Policy Passport blog. What? You mean you guys don’t read the FP? *tsk tsk*