News from another planet

Newspaperindex.com is all about finding the best newspapers in every country in the world and collect links to them. The problem is that some countries don’t have any newspapers with a website. Take a look at North Korea. The gTLD .kp has been reserved for North Korea, but it is not in use. They don’t have Internet at all. No blogs, no boingboing, no spam, nothing.

So where do we find news from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Well there is KCNA the state run news agency. Every day it brings 4-10 articles in both English, Russian and Spanish. The site is worth a bookmark, not because of the quality but for its weird combination of aggressive and eccentric views.

Today KCNA claims that the South Korean Authorities have a “sycophantic treacherous mentality”, it comfort us that the goal of North Korea is a total denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and there is a comment about the great friendship among North Korea and Libya. This is like reading news from another planet, but it provides an idea of what the North Korean newspapers offers their readers.

World leaders are praising Kim Jong II… See if you can find Kofi, Bush and Arafat :-)

Take a look at KCNA here

See more North Korean propaganda poster here

Going to North Korea? See this flash movie made by the government in North Korea to attract visitors..

UPDATE: The above link really pissed the Koreans of. They replace the flash movie with the most far out justification - but I had a copy and I send it to the kind folks at boingboing and here it is

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1. North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie

   Dude! Crank up your speakers. This flash movie produced by the state-run Korean Friendship Association in North Korea promises an awesome, rockin’ socialist getaway with many! electric! guitars! This begs a remix, or, I don’t know, maybe it’s perfe…

   Trackback by Boing Boing — March 5, 2005 @ 5:01 pm

2. Ok, so whereTF is the Flash movie?

   Comment by Anon — March 5, 2005 @ 6:10 pm

3. Read the article at boingboing.net again…
   The link is here: http://www.korea-dpr.com/kfa2005/flash.htm

   Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — March 5, 2005 @ 6:15 pm

4. Rude people linked to the content, so they had to take it offline. How rude. ;)

   Comment by Josh — March 5, 2005 @ 10:18 pm

5. :-) Yes it is quite funny… If anyone made a copy of the movie in time, I´ll put it on my server. Please mail it to me: hh@newspaperindex.com

   Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — March 5, 2005 @ 10:22 pm

6. :( Now i want to see it more then ever!
   This is not propaganda, it’s a dirty capitalistic marketing trick to make people long for it.

   Comment by Joao Barata — March 6, 2005 @ 1:20 am

7. I got the movie here and Xeni from boingboing has promised to post it as soon as possible. I can not have it on this server since it is 5,5 MB. - But send me your email and I will mail it to you right away..
   Hans

   Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — March 6, 2005 @ 1:25 am

8. Way to go you inconsiderate nincompoops. You’re so rude with your linking and all. What were you thinking, promoting a comercial! Now you have offended the “official” democratic peoples republic of Korea. You should be ashamed of yourself! :P

   Due to some inconsiderate people linking directly to our multimedia we were forced to take the content offline since it generated too much traffic.

   This kind of careless linking to high-profile sites is typical of the internet where people no longer respect that such links could make free content less available.

   We will never charge money to pay for the bandwidth, so if people are going to expect high-quality content they should make their own copy of the large file and share it from their own server.

   Questions can be sent to support@korea-dpr.com for technical advice.

   Thank you and have a nice day

   Comment by Michael Meiser — March 6, 2005 @ 2:21 am

9. This is an international outrage!

   Comment by Michael Meiser — March 6, 2005 @ 2:22 am

10. North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie

    Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-accompanied montage includes shots of fun relay games, …

    Trackback by Boing Boing — March 6, 2005 @ 4:44 pm

11. North Korean group promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie

    Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from an organization called the Korean Friendship Association — who claim to be sanctioned by the DPRK government — promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral…

    Trackback by Boing Boing — March 6, 2005 @ 5:15 pm

12. I wouldn´t be to confident on traveling in that airplane. It seems the landing gear is damaged since it is down all the trip.

    Comment by Felipe — March 7, 2005 @ 3:33 pm

13. North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie

    Crank up your speakers, comrade! This flash movie from “The Korean Friendship Association” — their website claims they’re sanctioned by the DPRK government — promises an awesome getaway to North Korea with many! electric! guitars! The choral-acco…

    Trackback by Boing Boing — March 7, 2005 @ 3:45 pm

14. […] European countries lead the world in providing freedoms to news media, while the United States lost ground in part because of the jailing earlier this year of a New York Times reporter, an international media-advocacy group said in an annual report. North Korea retained the last spot on the 167-country World Press Freedom Index for 2005, published Thursday by Reporters Without Borders. Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, ranked 166th, and Turkmenistan, in Central Asia, came in 165th, the group said in an advance statement. Iraq was 157th on the list. […]

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