Pay Attention, You Bourgeoise Scum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Few can denounce the "imperialist
ogre" or "kingpin of evil" as well as the writers at North
Korea’s official news agency, and a California graphic artist is now
cataloging their rhetorical masterpieces on a Web site.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, is the only regular
source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available
to diplomats, journalists and scholars.

But there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff
Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to
hone his Web design skills on a topic he had followed in news reports on
the North Korean nuclear crisis."Their propaganda is often unintentionally
hilarious and I couldn’t find an existing searchable database of the KCNA
on the Web. Thus, NK News was born," Davis told Reuters.

Launched in May, www.nk-news.net boasts of having nearly every KCNA article
since December 1996 — "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda
… each article written in the unique and indelible style of the KCNA."

Readers can get a taste of that KCNA style from recommended key word searches,
such as "burning hatred," which turns up 18 articles. The targets
of that hot wrath include Japan, Yankees, "U.S. imperialist ogres" and "class
enemies."

Story from Reuters

NK News site, featuring
the "world’s first Stalinist RSS Feed" and the always useful "Insult
Generator"