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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Few can denounce the "imperialist
\n ogre" or "kingpin of evil" as well as the writers at North
\n Korea’s official news agency, and a California graphic artist is now
\n cataloging their rhetorical masterpieces on a Web site.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, is the only regular
\n source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available
\n to diplomats, journalists and scholars.<\/p>\n
But there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff
\n Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to
\n hone his Web design skills on a topic he had followed in news reports on
\n the North Korean nuclear crisis."Their propaganda is often unintentionally
\n hilarious and I couldn’t find an existing searchable database of the KCNA
\n on the Web. Thus, NK News was born," Davis told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Launched in May, www.nk-news.net<\/a> boasts of having nearly every KCNA article Readers can get a taste of that KCNA style from recommended key word searches, Story from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n NK News<\/a> site, featuring <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading
\n since December 1996 — "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda
\n … each article written in the unique and indelible style of the KCNA."<\/p>\n
\n such as "burning hatred," which turns up 18 articles. The targets
\n of that hot wrath include Japan, Yankees, "U.S. imperialist ogres" and "class
\n enemies."<\/p>\n
\n the "world’s first Stalinist RSS Feed" and the always useful "Insult
\n Generator<\/a>"<\/p>\n