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INTEREST: North Korea's 'Great Successor' Described as Manga Fan


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Fletcher1991



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:11 pm Reply with quote
Horay, now North Korea can join the rest of the great nations of the world.
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Tanteikingdomkey



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:21 pm Reply with quote
I really hope this is actually true. I hope that the new leader is less.... then the previous leader of north korea
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Yttrbio



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:28 pm Reply with quote
It says he's a fan of manga characters. There are a lot of horrible, cartoonish dictators in manga
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Sunday Silence



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:32 pm Reply with quote
Supposedly, he also is into Basketball, mainly the Chicago Bulls.

Yeah, the events in the Homefront Trailer is looking to be reality really fast.....
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Sir Amyas Leigh



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:36 pm Reply with quote
so like I know Homefront was a terrible game but... the intro is almost just like this scenario...
Spooky.
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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:43 pm Reply with quote
Great... now I can look forward for NK to kidnap Hayao Miyazaki and making him direct propaganda anime.

You know... it's kind of creepy and sad that I could be arrested for saying that in North Korea.
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százlábú



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:53 pm Reply with quote
His father loved Hollywood movies.



Maybe ps-ed, but still funny. Laughing
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samuelp
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:09 pm Reply with quote
Wait, this is bad. Real bad.

His dad was a huge movie fan -> Kidnapped his own movie director to make movies for him.

His son is a huge manga fan -> Might kidnap mangaka from Japan to draw manga of him!

Kubo, Oda, need secret service protection stat!

Actually though, for your average C-level mangaka, being kidnapped and forced to draw propaganda manga for North Korea in pseudo captivity might actually be a better life than they lead now Sad
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:44 pm Reply with quote
I'm sure the brainwashed masses will soon believe he became fluent in Japanese when he was 3 months old and drew 1500 manga while he was in college. Like father, like son.

Emerje
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TokyoGetter



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:45 pm Reply with quote
I wish I had bought Kim Jong Il's film theory book before it went up to 270 bucks: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Cinema-April-11-1973/dp/0898756138/ref=tsm_1_tp_un_it

I don't know how much faith I'm willing to put in an anonymous source from years ago...
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százlábú



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:50 pm Reply with quote
They have already fine manhwa drawers and writers, so they shouldn't kidnap anybody. I found some propaganda comic on ryomyong.com 2 years ago.
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Banjo



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:56 pm Reply with quote
probably he likes Gundams and his favorite character is Char Aznable Laughing
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Failachu



Joined: 26 Apr 2010
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:08 pm Reply with quote
Sir Amyas Leigh wrote:
so like I know Homefront was a terrible game but... the intro is almost just like this scenario...
Spooky.


Watch out, folks, the man who wrote Apocalypse Now and Red State is a prophet!
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:18 pm Reply with quote
Emerje wrote:
I'm sure the brainwashed masses will soon believe he became fluent in Japanese when he was 3 months old and drew 1500 manga while he was in college.

All 1500 of which, one hastens to add, portraying certain social ideals in a conspicuously univocal manner.
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Haterater



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:35 pm Reply with quote
That Homefront trailer is eerie to me as well. Too close to home now. Makes me think that groups like the CIA will look at the manga he reads to try to gauge him in some way.
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