There is all sorts of wild talk, mostly around the possibility of a third DPRK nuclear test. But that’s hardly the weirdest, most disturbing thing occurring on the Korean peninsula.
The North Korean propaganda campaign against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is in high dudgeon with all manner of ugliness. Particularly unpleasant examples can be seen in a series of cartoons showing Lee as a rat. There is something really shocking about them, possibly because the artistic cues are all very modern but the sentiment expressed is distinctly medieval.
Take a gander at the cartoons below the jump.
Just a word of context: Lee Myung-bak as rat seems to be a theme, accompanied with a threat in KCNA to “reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style” — whatever that means:
The special actions of our revolutionary armed forces will start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors.
Those actions are an eruption of the public anger and resentment and a sacred war of all service personnel and people to protect the dignity of our supreme leadership.
Their targets are the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors, the arch criminals, and the group of rat-like elements including conservative media destroying the mainstay of the fair public opinion.
Once the above-said special actions kick off, they will reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style.
Our revolutionary armed forces do not make an empty talk.
Seriously? And you thought I was war-mongering when I suggested we swap the casing on the B83?
