A North Korean propaganda video, up on LiveLeak from official website Uriminzokkiri is traveling the Internet today, at the same time as the government is ramping up its saber rattling in preparation for a third nuclear test.
The video depicts a North Korean rocket launch interspersed with images of a sleeping man, set to an instrumental version of Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie’s “We Are the World.” The video is bizarre from start to finish, but there’s something particularly odd about a destroyed American city that shows up halfway through. For one thing, it’s much more detailed than anything else in the video before or after. For another, a few alert netizens have noticed that it’s obviously lifted from Call of Duty.
So this is a propaganda video from the North Korean government that features both an American song from the 80s and a modern American video game. It’s either laziness on the part of the propaganda ministry, or some very specific messaging. After all, it does contain these lines, according to the Live Leak translation:
"Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing/ It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze with the fire started by itself.”
So, presumably, this is the fire we started ourselves – “We are the World’ and “Call of Duty.” An odd pair, indeed. Watch the video below, with the relevant Call of Duty Scene below that.
