North Korean News Is Funny

In a thoroughly bizarre incident, a South Korean citizen citizen has defected to North Korea according to KCNA. He must have been pretty nuts (or his life in ROK pretty amazingly terrible) to want to do this. There must be more to the story. But at any rate, it makes great press for North Korea as it bolsters the lie that North is preferable to the South, something it has been feeding its citizens (rather than, for example, food) for many years. Contrast this with the reality of North Korea’s need to defend its border with China — to keep its own citizens in.

Amusingly, the last sentence of the KCNA story: “He is now under the warm care of a relevant organ.”