Milblog Black Five launches a retaliatory PhotoShop strike. [Via Instapundit]. Not sure about the accompanying rant, but the picture is worthy of Team America.
Was listening to an interview with footloose world music DJ Andy Kershaw on Radio 5 this morning (he's been to North Korea a number of times) and wondered why he was so reluctant to acknowledge the numbers of political prisoners in the land of Kim. The figures came from those well-known warmongers at Amnesty International. Kershaw argues that we're being fed propaganda about the regime.
David Aaronovitch has come across AK before:
Perhaps you heard Andy Kershaw’s two-part Radio 3 series on North Korean music three years back and agree with him that the lifestyle in the Democratic Republic is simply a little quaint...
And The Daily Ablution picked up this press quote a while ago:
As for feared dictator Kim Jong Il, Mr. Kershaw says some people argue that he's "an unelected madman ... but the same could be said about George Bush".
In fairness to Kershaw, I see that Eric the Unread has linked to an unflinching extract from the programme on Iran.
I'm listening in to Kershaw's Pyongyang travelogue right this minute. Good radio, although the jaunty tone certainly is jarring. Would he have been quite so breezy about, say, Apartheid-era South Africa?