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5th November 2017

North Korea’s all-female fan club dress up in military uniforms and recreate songs by Kim Jong-un’s favourite pop band (mirror.co.uk).

A headline faux pas it would seem in that clickbaiting would have been better served by “Japan’s all-female fan club dress up in North Korean military uniforms…” which is actually the truth of the matter, which anyone not getting their news purely from the headline and electing a toxic orange tycoon in a syrup of figs to be at some point impeached or allowing political opportunists and Russian rubles (theguardian.com) to lead elderly Brexiteers with colonial nostalgia up the vicarage garden path and over a cliff, would find out; read on:

Sengun Joshi, taking selfies in their uniforms, image: Reuters
Sengun Joshi taking selfies in their uniforms, image: Reuters
“A group of Japanese women have formed what is thought to be one of the only North Korean fan clubs in the world despite receiving threats. Set up by Chunhun, a woman in her 20s, she and her friends recreate performances of North Korea’s all-female Moranbong band—a pop group handpicked by Kim Jong-un himself.”

Dressing up in look-alike state capitalist (isj.org, Jun. 2006) cheesecake pin-up military uniforms to go over their dance steps, ready for performances in public—if they can make it down the real or virtual road without something angry alt-right taking out all those school years of bullying and rejection on them.

Meanwhile, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey plays with newly crusted #fecalbeard after Orange Don got his “I’m allowed to hate” account shut down for 10 minutes (theguardian.com) causing him to have to type in angry ALL-CAPS in Notepad instead and nearly sit on big red button and launch missiles at Fatty Kim in North Korea as another means to get or divert attention.

“The women have been accused of being spies for, or defectors from, the reclusive country, and have been harassed on social media.”

But, you know, I’m likely not alone feeling perhaps there is some degree of selfie taking parody involved, much in the manner of dressing up as 70s Abba to perform “Super Trouper” at your local meet/meat market’s (urbandictionary.com) disco night—if said “socialist” parody entitles you to a ration of course.

“Cunhun said the group known as Sengun Joshi—translated as Military-first Girls—are just like other Japanese women who are interested in American or South Korean culture.”

And that they don’t support the North Korean regime and are pretty much the same as “girls who like K-pop“ or the “girls who wear the same make-up as Taylor Swift—both of which are probably punishable by death by anti-aircraft gun execution in N. Korea (independent.co.uk, Sept. 2017) unless Fatty Kim takes a shine to your “good legs”.

The Mirror article with a video clip of Sengun Joshi preforming, but, if you want to see the real N. Korean thing—

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