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Patriotism Story of the Week

2004-04-28 16:53:29.69688+02 by petronius 0 comments

And we Yanks think ourselves patriotic: According to a Korean Central News Bureau story quoted in the Guardian, many people caught up in the recent train explosion in the Democratic People's Republic died trying to rescue some of the portraits of the "Great Leader' (Kim Il-song) and the "Dear Leader" (Fat Boy) from the collapsing buildings. With true British aplomb, the Guardian points out that the stories "could not be independently verified."

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