North Korea releases satirical video calling President Park ‘mentally ill’

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N. Korea releases satirical video calling President Park ‘mentally ill’

Video has very different tone to usual invective directed at South Korean president

May 29th, 2015
Leo Byrne

North Korean state media outlet Urimizokkiri on Friday released an unusually satirical video insulting South Korea’s president.

While insults directed at Park are not uncommon in the DPRK media, the tone of the video is markedly different from the usual invective North Korea reserves for President Park Geun-hye, complete with a pleasant tone and jaunty introduction jingle.

The light-hearted feel of the video however belies the content, which claims the South Korean president is mentally ill and should be isolated from society.

“All South Korean citizens say that President Park’s mental illness has gotten worse recently. What illness does she bear? It is the mental illness that makes one to ‘talk bad of one’s own people,’” the video begins.

After calling Cheongwadae (the Blue House, the South Korean presidential residence) a “dark and deep place filled with fungus,” the video continues its satirical approach by drawing up a ‘prescription’ for the supposed illness.

The narrator says Park’s suffers from an incurable “schizophrenia originating from defiance (toward the DPRK and its people),” with hereditary symptoms including talking “gibberish to anyone about picking on the dignity of same race.”

With the supposedly “incurable” nature of her illness, the so-called prescription recommends Park, along with the ruling Saenuri Party, be isolated from the population and blocked from society.

According the to the NK News KCNA Watch data tool, the Korean Central News Agency mentions Park numerous times on a weekly basis.

Source: KCNA Watch

Recently, however, the North Korean media appears to have upped the severity of its rhetoric against the South Korean president.

However, last week it was noticed that the DPRK media had published an article that was inflammatory even by North Korean standards.

“How can a mouth that licks the stinking crotch of her American master speak the upright words this requires and our nation expects?” the Korean version of the article reads.



Featured Image: Korea_President_Park_EastSideGallery_08 by KOREA.NET - Official page of the Republic of Korea on 2014-03-27 17:27:00