Tiger in Spain 0 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Few can denounce the "imperialist ogre" or "kingpin of evil" as well as the writers at North Korea's official news agency, and a California graphic artist is now cataloging their rhetorical masterpieces on a Web site. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, is the only regular source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available to diplomats, journalists and scholars. But there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to hone his Web design skills on a topic he had followed in news reports on the North Korean nuclear crisis. "Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born," Davis told Reuters. Launched in May, www.nk-news.net boasts of having nearly every KCNA article since December 1996 -- "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda ... each article written in the unique and indelible style of the KCNA." Readers can get a taste of that KCNA style from recommended key word searches, such as "burning hatred," which turns up 18 articles. The targets of that hot wrath include Japan, Yankees, "U.S. imperialist ogres" and "class enemies." "Human scum" yields 25 KCNA reports applying that epithet to President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and diplomat John Bolton. Rumsfeld also keeps company with Japanese officials in the "political dwarf" category. RANDOM INSULT GENERATOR The flip-side of withering scorn for North Korea's perceived foes is fawning praise for Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il-sung. Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, is hailed as a "peerlessly great man" in 139 articles since 1996. "Inveterate" is another popular KCNA word and a search for it returns an entry describing "U.S. imperialists" as "a pack of beasts in human skin and the inveterate enemy with whom the Korean nation cannot live under the same sky." "From browsing through the KCNA's propaganda, even the most casual observer can see that the regime is a cult," said Davis, 31, who makes his living producing graphics for court trials. Reuters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,930 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Random insult generator? Dont they have one of those on TI, BamaMag, and TideFans? Seems they cannot post anything related to or without there being some kind of insult attached. Barn, UThug, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger in Spain 0 Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Random insult generator? Dont they have one of those on TI, BamaMag, and TideFans? 174537[/snapback] They do, indeed. One can not be referred to as a "despicable warmongerer" or a "black-hearted beast" there though. Come to think of it, a person could find themselves regarded as such in the Politically Speaking forum here. All one has to do is post, "That Iraq war thing is sure leading to the demise of many bloodthirsty terrorists" and then wait for the lefties to speak up in the terrorists defense. Just remind the bammers that they haven't done anything over the past 25 years other than make themselves the laughing stock of college football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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