the mysterious east vol. ccxxiv

On the same day as Pyongyang revealed the supposed assassination plot, one of the regime’s newspapers launched a separate attack on President Bush, applauding the recent incident where an Iraqi journalist flung his shoes at the startled US President.

The newspaper, in a reference to a favourite North Korean allusion to humiliated pride, described Mr Bush as looking like “a cockerel soaked in the rain”.

dancing in the streets redux

photo by Megan Schmidgal