3 jokes that could get you sent to a firing squad in North Korea

Harold C. Hutchison
Apr 23, 2021 5:24 AM PDT
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We’re all well aware that Kim Jong Un isn’t known for his sense of humor. Remember when that James Franco/Seth Rogen movie, “The Interview,” was released

We're all well aware that Kim Jong Un isn't known for his sense of humor. Remember when that James Franco/Seth Rogen movie, "The Interview," was released despite threats from the North Korean regime?


As you may recall, when "Team America: World Police" was released, Kim Jong Il hadn't over-reacted so badly. Perhaps that was due to his being a movie buff. I mean, the dictator once kidnapped a South Korean director to improve his country's film industry, for goodness sakes.

 

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on November 28, 2014, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a flight drill of pursuit airwomen of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS)

 

Kim Jong Un also has a track record of executing those who have displeased him, using anti-aircraft guns for executions. Among those who have faced this form of firing squad in the past are a Defense Minister who fell asleep at a meeting and the vice premier, who fell asleep during a speech.

According to a report from The Daily Mail, the next group to face the AA guns could be some North Korean soldiers who were having some fun at the dictator's expense. Now, troops often grouse about the brass, and even will poke fun at them. And our brass will tolerate it to some degree – at least until it undermines their authority, as this scene from Black Hawk Down shows:

Note that Captain Steele kept it to a brief moment of informal counseling. Using an anti-aircraft gun never entered his mind.

Here are some of the jokes that the North Korean grunts who now may be headed for their date with a DShK gun supposedly told:

1. Compare him to a mental patient

Kim Jong Un may have some problems. There was that time he got Hangover-level drunk and demanded senior military officials write letters of apology for not launching a "military satellite." The next morning, he came down, and expressed concern for the elderly generals' health.

In some ways, this was played on in "The Interview."

2. Compare him to a kindergartener

Kim Jong Un got this as well, albeit the best examples may be from this Russia Today video showing him watching some missile launches. Barron Trump arguably showed more maturity at President Trump's inauguration – and he was 10 years old at the time.

3. Mocking Kim's ancestors

The Daily Mail particularly noted that some of the troops called Kim Jong Un "Kim Squared" – implying Kim Jong Un's level of crazy was more than the combined crazy from his grandfather Kim Il-Sung and his father Kim Jong Il.

We can't speak to the former, but "Team America: World Police" mocked the hell out of Kim Jong Il. Here is one of Kim's first moments in the film — when he fires his translator in very dramatic fashion.

Now, we at We Are The Mighty would like to suggest that maybe Kim Jong Un should take a page from his dad and try to sing it out, like in this clip:
Then again, it might not work.

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