|
'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang
|
Special to World Tribune.com
EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
The caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies.
|
North Korean leader Kim Jung Il in Paramount's "Team America: World Police - 2004."
|
|
The Czech Foreign Ministry, however, said the North Koreans had been rebuffed in their effort to undermine the Czech Republic's post-Communist era freedom. The film shows marionettes attempting to stop Kim Jong-Il from destroying cities around the globe.
A Czech newspaper, Lidove Noviny, reports that a North Korean diplomat complained that the film "harms the image of our country." He was even quoted as saying, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture."
Copyright © 2005 East West
Services, Inc.
|
