North Korean News Is Funny

Eminent domain is flayed

Posted on October 13, 2009

This KCNA story discusses the ROK military’s use of the South Korean version of eminent domain to appropriate land for military exercises. It’s funny because KCNA’s support of the protesters suggests that the needs of the individual inhabitants of the land should trump the needs of the military and therefore the state, an idea which runs totally counter to the DPRK philosophy of communism. Also funny for the nonsensical use of the word “flayed”.