{"id":1630,"date":"2005-01-12T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-12T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T01:09:30","slug":"those-wacky-north-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/those-wacky-north-koreans\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Wacky North Koreans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every other day or so, a news story describes life in North Korea. It is invariably a story about the totally asinine pronouncements of the government there. It almost makes me want to have a section on the page entitled &#8220;Those Wacky North Koreans,&#8221; under which we would place headlines such as:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/korea\/article\/0,2763,1388283,00.html\">Get a Socialist Haircut, North Korea Tells Men<\/a>, on how the NK govt says that long hair saps the brain of its energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=3962314\">North Korea Orders Preparation for War With US<\/a>, where one of the preparations include food, water, weapons, and portrais of Kim Jong Il.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/korea\/article\/0,2763,1205282,00.html\">North Korea: Train Blast Victims Died Saving Portraits of Kim<\/a>, noting the official (and to me, highly offensive) reasons for the death of a few NK &#8220;heroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Communism doesn&#8217;t just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/korea\/article\/0,2763,1366867,00.html\">make you short<\/a>; it makes you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200412\/s1273781.htm\">total retard<\/a>, as well. Hopefully, this is all <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002138667_nkorea03.html\">coming to an end very soon&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every other day or so, a news story describes life in North Korea. It is invariably a story about the totally asinine pronouncements of the government there. It almost makes me want to have a section on the page entitled &#8220;Those Wacky North Koreans,&#8221; under which we would place headlines such as: Get a Socialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}