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Kimmie Enjoys "Light Military Comedy"
Reclusive communist leader Kim Jong-il has taken a break from North Korea's nuclear showdown with the United States to enjoy a light military comedy.Ok, what the hell is a "light military comedy"? Hugh Grant with an AK-47? Kim joined army generals and officials of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) to take in a "light comedy spiced with scenes making one laugh and bringing tears to one's eyes", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. A lover of cinema and drama, Kim pronounced the rib-tickling production by the army's April 25 Film Studio as "another excellent work great in cognitional and educational significance and flawless in ideological content and artistry", KCNA added. Like most works in North Korea, the play trumpeted Kim's "songun" (army-first) policies which give the North's million-strong military a lead role in society, KCNA said. It did not say when the show in Pyongyang took place. "The creators and artistes of the studio truthfully represented the great vitality of the songun leadership of the WPK and the philosophical truth that one can live only when one remains true to the WPK's songun leadership," it said. Kim has made a series of trips to military bases since he emerged last month from an Posted by: Baba Yaga 2003-05-07 |
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