North Korean Humor

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http://in.today.reuters.com/News/ne...130006Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-297168-1.xml


SEOUL (Reuters) - In North Korea, where cracking a joke about the country's leader could see you, well, die laughing, poking fun at the U.S. president is obviously not as serious.
As military chiefs from both sides of the Korean peninsula met on Tuesday for talks, a general from the North started proceedings by telling a joke at George W. Bush's expense.
"I recently read a piece of political humour on the Internet called 'saving the president'," Lieutenant-General Kim Yong-chol was quoted as saying in pool reports from the talks.
He then retold the old yarn about Bush who goes out jogging one morning and, preoccupied with international affairs, fails to notice that a car is heading straight at him.
A group of schoolchildren pull the president away just in time, saving his life, and a grateful Bush offers them anything they want in the world as a reward.
"We want a place reserved for us at Arlington Memorial Cemetery," say the children.
"Why is that?" he asks.
"Because our parents will kill us if they find out what we've done."
The South Korean generals appeared befuddled as to what to make of the humour -- perhaps not surprisingly given that the North usually only refers to the United States and its officials in vitriolic, highly politicised language.
In the North, where Kim Jong-il wields absolute power, former refugees have said attempts to demean him mean certain punishment or even execution.
 
Like the old Soviet-area joke.

"Here in America, we can call our President names without any fear of punishment."

"Big deal. Here in the Soviet Union, we can also call your President names without any fear of punishment."
 
True...because the joke that goes: Great Leader Kim jong Il is distractedly jogging down the road thinking about booze, women and nuclear weapons and doesn't see a care baring down on him. School children rush in and save Kim's life. He has them shot for witnessing his distractedness. He has the driver of the car shot for trying to assinate the great leader. He has the road obliterated by teams of forced labor to erradicate the memory of a moment of weakness.
 
headscratcher4 said:
True...because the joke that goes: Great Leader Kim jong Il is distractedly jogging down the road thinking about booze, women and nuclear weapons and doesn't see a care baring down on him. School children rush in and save Kim's life. He has them shot for witnessing his distractedness. He has the driver of the car shot for trying to assinate the great leader. He has the road obliterated by teams of forced labor to erradicate the memory of a moment of weakness.
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You're confusing the "Great Leader" (Kim pere) with the "Dear Leader" (Lil' Kim)

I wonder what the North Koreans make of the fact that Americans are allowed to make fun of their leader with impunity? I suppose that most don't know this, but surely some high-ranking officials have to be allowed to know what it going on in the rest of the world.
 
Puppycow said:
You're confusing the "Great Leader" (Kim pere) with the "Dear Leader" (Lil' Kim)

I wonder what the North Koreans make of the fact that Americans are allowed to make fun of their leader with impunity? I suppose that most don't know this, but surely some high-ranking officials have to be allowed to know what it going on in the rest of the world.
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You are correct...I did confuse Dear Leader and Geat Leader. Oh well...10 years in the gulag for me.
 
timhau said:
In the history of mankind, has there ever been a dictator with absolute power who had a sense of humor?
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Thinking about this last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I suddenly thought: "Where the hell is the ceiling?"
 
It's touching, the way the North Koreans recycle old Roosevelt jokes.

McKinley jokes? James Madison jokes? Genghis Khan?
 
Three million North Koreans walk into a bar. They order a beer, pay up, and then just sit there, sipping their drinks, not saying a word. Finally, the bartender can't stand it anymore. "We don't see many North Koreans in here," he says.

"And with this atmosphere of hedonistic individualism capitalistically exploiting the labor of the masses and wasting the people's agricultural resources," say the North Koreans, "you won't see many more."
 
This was originally a Ceaucescu-era Romanian joke, but I suppose you can tell it of North Korea as well:

A Polish, an East German, and a North Korean dog are making plans for their New Year party.

"Let's go to my place," says the Polish dog. "I don't have any bones, but we can bark all we want."

"No, let's go to my place," says the East German dog. "I have plenty of bones, but there will be absolutely no barking."

The North Korean dog looks confused. "What are bones, and what's barking?"
 
President Bush said:
Thinking about this last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I suddenly thought: "Where the hell is the ceiling?"
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Damn that pretzel for not doing its job, and why are you letting Laura ride on top? You are a Fundy, which constrains you to the missionary position.

DR
 
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