That Rikshaw Has Left The Pagoda
By Mitch Berg
To: Kim Jong-Un, Head Community Organizer, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
From: Mitch Berg, American with no real portfolio
Re: Anticlimax
Chairman Kim,
Seeing this statement…:
Threatening that it would not give any advance notice before attacking South Korea, the North warned: “Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now.”
…is just a little incongruous, coming on the heels of a weeks-long PR blitz designed to get maximum attention from western media.
That is all.
(CULTURAL SENSITIVITY NOTE: I know that neither Rikshaws nor Pagodas are Korean. But I figured it’d work better than typing “그 기차가 역을 출발“. Am I right, or am I right?)
(TYPOGRAPHY NOTE: Is anyone but me amazed that one can actually italicize Hangul characters?)
April 16th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Call me culturally insensitive, but the thought of that little gangnam style twerp & his posse being chased down the street by a battalion of screaming Kimbots is somehow comforting.
April 16th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
(TYPOGRAPHY NOTE: Is anyone but me amazed that one can actually italicize Hangul characters?)
Look, we expect more than that. Give us Hangul characters in Comic Sans and then you have something.
April 16th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Swiftee….if that happens, I wonder if the little runt would retract his statement where he said he wishes terrorists would kill Ameican servicemen.
April 16th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Please add to the insensitivity how the “People’s Daily” (the website for the Communist Party of China’s newspaper) took the Onion’s story about Kim Jong Un being named “Sexiest Man” seriously and proudly included it on their page along with 55 photographs of the strapping young man.
Apparently satire does not translate well in either Hanyu Pinyin or Hangul.
That story alone should make Un consider some type of face-saving gesture. Either by ramping-up the military or playing the bully card (if the US doesn’t do that for him first).
April 16th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Chuck, he retracted that .2 mS after he smelled his first stack of green, American dollars. It was heartfelt, too…there was some tear squirting, I think.
April 16th, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle!
We cannot help questioning the cultural taste of this comrade, Mitch Berg, who is incapable of feeling ashamed of his hair style. Can we expect a man with this disheveled mind-set to perform his duty well?
April 16th, 2013 at 6:31 pm
The faint smell of a dog fart capturing the real essence of North Korean political change. Fresh as the breaking wind over that forlorn and blighted country, perhaps change begins quietly, silent but deadly.
April 17th, 2013 at 9:13 am
OK, +1 for Emery.
Don’t let it happen again.
April 17th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
Twice in one day? This is a joke, right Emery? You cannot be suggesting you are actually FOR a dissoultion of your heaven on earth, for NorK is the ultimate result of all your fondest wishes to drag USofA down exact same socialist path.
April 17th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Twice in one day? This is a joke, right Emery? You cannot be suggesting you are actually FOR a dissoultion of your heaven on earth, for NorK is the ultimate result of all your fondest wishes to drag USofA down exact same soci@list path.
Dang moderator filters!
April 17th, 2013 at 6:08 pm
The change probably is tentative, and it will be hard to tell how strong it is – for a while anyway. A bit like a cushion-creeper. Detecting the strength of a real fart is easy. If the perpetrator is offended its bad, if dogs leave the room its very bad, and if children start crying then there is danger about. But farts in Korea are difficult to measure.