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at 2 Mar 2007: 15:22

I don't know if this has been posted before, but in case it hasn't...

a friend just showed me these:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNR4kR1uC-w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oO6LvFLLKtY
Somekinda propaganda cartoon-thing from north korea starring anthropomorphic characters

From what I read in the comments the squirrels are supposed to be the north koreans, the rats the south koreans and the wolves the americans

I have very little idea about what it's all about since I don't understand the language but I must say it was pretty fun to watch. The "americans" may be portrayed as badguys in it but if I was american (I'm a swede) I would feel flattered... I mean come on, just look at that wolf... he's just as much hot stuff as his ship/plane/whatever is awesome XD

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at 3 Mar 2007: 17:32

z0mg iväe been looking for theese ever since i saw the VCD at the north korean webshop lol :D gonna check theese out as ASAP, btw im from sweden too ^^ *superior*

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Gravecat at 4 Mar 2007: 20:35

That... is AWESOME. A bunch of us were watching it at a friend's house, though I was mainly rooting for the bad guys. I mean, c'mon, that weasel was amazing.

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at 5 Mar 2007: 16:00

Rule #34 activate

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at 5 Mar 2007: 16:51

inb4americansmakepornofthis

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at 5 Mar 2007: 18:50

I can't be the only one who thinks this is sick. It reminds me of the Disney WW2 animations. These cartoons are usually aimed at children, and facing children with a political agenda is as bad as indoctrinating them into a religion.

It's ironic that they helped themselves to a tactic devised by their "enemies".

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Raven at 5 Mar 2007: 19:10

>>6

Welcome to society.

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szzz at 5 Mar 2007: 19:50

>>7
true dat~

Call me crazy but this is stuff i'm willing to pay for, too bad the DPRK webshop is down (togheter with their crappy website -_-) www.korea-dpr.com

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at 5 Mar 2007: 20:09

It reminded me also of the Disney and Warner Bros propaganda cartoons of WW2.

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stevefarfan at 6 Mar 2007: 12:23

The art is beautiful.  I love it.  It's kinda interesting though.  Our U.S. movies love to put the soviet union, nazis, and other people as the enemies... but we understand that these people are still human beings.  Good and evil is more about circumstance and conditions rather than something specific to certain groups of people and nationalities.  As long people understand this, then the propaganda shouldn't cause harm.

The one difference is, information really tends to have both sides in the U.S..  So people can more or less get a wider perspective than what the popular TV and newspaper sources likes to feed.  I'm not sure how far censorship goes in North Korea, I believe that'll define how much this could warp the mind.

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at 6 Mar 2007: 12:25

so... if anybody understand korean, plz translate it. =D

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at 6 Mar 2007: 12:54

>>6

So I hope you are actively working against the recitation of the Pledge of Allegience in US schools?

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at 7 Mar 2007: 18:18

What is the crocodile supposed to be?

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at 7 Mar 2007: 19:13

>>10 Our U.S. movies love to put the soviet union, nazis, and other people as the enemies... but we understand that these people are still human beings.

I felt the North Korean animation portrayed the South Koreans as very human. Although I don't understand the language, it appeared to me that the South Korean mice showed human emotion (3:30-4:00), seemed disgusted by battle violence and fearful of their superiors and the Americans (4:00-4:30), and were deemed worth saving (6:00-6:30) except the Americans retrieved them before the North Koreans got to them.

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Humus at 7 Mar 2007: 21:10

Glad I'm Canadian. :3

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at 8 Mar 2007: 08:08

>>12

What does "actively working against" have anything to do with my distaste of propaganda? I didn't mention or intimate that I planned on raiding the animation studio which made these cartoons.

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at 8 Mar 2007: 18:23

>>1

Hey, Swedish person, thanks for showing that! I loved it, and I'm American, and I have agree with you, the wolf was a winner. I love that spiky death stick! You can menace your cronies with it, AND pick up trash with it. The tanks with the flower flags were great, too, this really made me smile. It's the Care Commies!

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at 8 Mar 2007: 20:33

>>16
Talk is cheap, that's all.

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at 9 Mar 2007: 03:55

Wow... North Koreans show this to little kids? Wow...

Someone needs to let the anti-GI Joe moms know!

And those wolves, be them American or otherwise, are rather hot...

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at 9 Mar 2007: 07:55

>>18

True. Actions speak louder than words. I'm just not pissed off enough.

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at 9 Mar 2007: 16:00

>>6

And in the US, we have ridiculous amounts of propaganda geared at everyone, especially children. The capitalists do their very best to turn us into consumer whores through ridiculous amount of propaganda in their favor, and if you think the version of US History told in grammar school is particularly accurate, you may as well think 300 is an accurate portrayal of the battle of Thermopylae. (Not knockin' 300, it's meant for entertainment, and I think it succeeds rather well in that regard.)

As far as I know, all nations propagandize heavily to their children, in order to instill national loyalty. It's not exactly all that good a thing, but it's not as if it's unique to North Korea. :P

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Raven at 9 Mar 2007: 17:44

>>21

I think my one sentence reply summed all of this up a lot more succinctly.

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at 10 Mar 2007: 02:23

>>22

Touche. :P

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at 10 Mar 2007: 04:56

And that is why america rocks, we will get in a bird-plane or possibly even a whale, come to your country, steal your important briefcases and kill your main characters. And we are taller and more menecangly drawn. And we have glowing eyes. 

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stevefarfan at 10 Mar 2007: 10:00

and apparently they think we are all hung like horses.

http://yesitistrue.ytmnd.com/

If only, right?

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at 10 Mar 2007: 10:08

That's how a lot of the world sees the United States.

- The wolves are portrayed flying bird-planes over the squirrels' country because Americans actually fly spy-planes and spy-satellites over foreign countries.
- The wolves are portrayed with devastating laser weapons because Americans actually have superior technology.
- The wolves are portrayed backing and controlling the mice, because Americans have a history of supporting one side of conflicts that do not directly involve the United States.
- The wolves are portrayed as menacing warmongers perhaps because, since the end of World War 2, the American military has fought in more wars and invasions on foreign land than any other country!

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at 10 Mar 2007: 20:44

All your briefcases...
All your briefcases...
All your briefcases...
Are belong to whalebot.

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at 11 Mar 2007: 03:55

>>25 Ah yes, but that is OK because we have glowing eyes, and as everyone knows it it the right of all glowing-eyed people to conquer the world by whatever means necessary (Including whales). That's science you can't argue with science.
(I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids)

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Sabre at 11 Mar 2007: 07:22

>>26
Wars that are well known. You could be right, but there are many wars going on even during 'peace time', you just don't hear of them. There was alot going on involving old (British) empire stuff that we never hear of unless you go looking.

Glowing eyes are cool, except for hide and seek. The bad guys always get the best kit.

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at 12 Mar 2007: 01:38

>>29
 Unless you're playing that game called Bloody Murder, or Ghost in the Graveyard, where one person goes and hides, and everyone else has to seek them, and then the hidden person tries to jump out and tag someone before they get back to base! That game is freaky enough as is, but if you had glowing eyes, and were it, and you could snap them open in the dark just before you nail someone so they suddenly see your eyes appear, that would be seriously great. That would be like instant pants-wetting for sure.

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Sabre at 12 Mar 2007: 07:33

>>30
GENIUS! Simply Genius. Never heard of those games, and I'm probley a little old to play them now, but dyum! That would be awsome.

Also raves and discos.

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