North Korea's maximum leader (and class clown of the Axis of Evil), Kim Jong-il, has his knickers in a twist over the latest James Bond film. So he sent the toadies out to complain:
North Korea has urged the United States to stop showing the new James Bond film, branding it "dirty" and "insulting" to its people.Whooee - fin de siècle! I wonder how you say that in Korean? But of course, the Kim family much prefers Disneyland.
In a terse statement, officials claimed the film was culturally offensive and launched an attack on American values.
The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland called the 20th Bond film a "dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander (North Korea) and insult the Korean nation..."
It said Die Another Day, starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, "clearly proves" the United States is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation" and is "an empire of evil".
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"The United States should stop at once the show," the North Korean statement said.
It said the Bond feature offensively describes "the DPRK as part of an 'axis of evil', inciting inter-Korean confrontation, groundlessly despising and insulting the Korean nation and malignantly desecrating even religion".
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The statement said the US is "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin de siecle corrupt sex culture".
