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February 11, 2005

Team America: "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture"

World Tribune.com -- 'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang.
Fuck_yeah_kimjongThe caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies.

What do you expect from a movie that "shows marionettes attempting to stop Kim Jong-Il from destroying cities around the globe?

A Czech newspaper...reports that a North Korean diplomat complained that the film "harms the image of our country." He was even quoted as saying, "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture."

Word from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is that the North Korean embassy there is asking the government to ban the film...

The Czech Foreign Ministry, however, said the North Koreans had been rebuffed in their effort to undermine the Czech Republic's post-Communist era freedom.

Let freedom ring.

Via DC Media Girl

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