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'''Songun Blog''' is a [[Parody]] of North Korean propaganda, spanning a [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/ blog] and a [http://www.youtube.com/user/Songunblog YouTube video channel]. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]] that must be seen to be believed.
'''Songun Blog''' is a [[Parody]] of North Korean propaganda, spanning a [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/ blog] and a [http://www.youtube.com/user/Songunblog YouTube video channel]. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of [[Engrish]] and [[Purple Prose]] that must be seen to be believed.
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=== ''Songun Blog'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] It claims America is "filled with unemployment, foreclosures, crime, drugs, prostitution, murder and jaywalking."
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] It claims America is "filled with unemployment, foreclosures, crime, drugs, prostitution, murder and jaywalking."
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Black Comedy]]
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* [[Orwellian Editor]] : On his-her-its [[YouTube]] channel, he-she-it has made it so any comments not fulsome and sycopanthic about anything in the DPRK are automatically deleted and has released a video on [[YouTube]] urging other pro-DPRK youtubers to do so... [[Comically Missing the Point|in the interests of free speech]]... Ummm... whatever?
* [[Orwellian Editor]] : On his-her-its [[YouTube]] channel, he-she-it has made it so any comments not fulsome and sycopanthic about anything in the DPRK are automatically deleted and has released a video on [[YouTube]] urging other pro-DPRK youtubers to do so... [[Comically Missing the Point|in the interests of free speech]]... Ummm... whatever?
* [[Propaganda Machine]]: what they consider all anti-DPRK material to be.
* [[Propaganda Machine]]: what they consider all anti-DPRK material to be.
* [[Shout Out]]: Songun is the name for the DPRK "military-first" policy.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Songun is the name for the DPRK "military-first" policy.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: "This is too well done to be parody," as one reviewer puts it. Its parodic nature is proven pretty much conclusively by [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bad-jews-good-jews.html a blog post] accusing an Israeli soldier of "slap[ping] a cat hard," and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTRSjw7Wf4 video] accusing an American soldier of "Stealing schoolgirls' ham sandwich for sale in 'Israel.'" Unfortunately, not everyone seems to have gotten the joke.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: "This is too well done to be parody," as one reviewer puts it. Its parodic nature is proven pretty much conclusively by [http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bad-jews-good-jews.html a blog post] accusing an Israeli soldier of "slap[ping] a cat hard," and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bTRSjw7Wf4 video] accusing an American soldier of "Stealing schoolgirls' ham sandwich for sale in 'Israel.'" Unfortunately, not everyone seems to have gotten the joke.
* [[Strawman Political]]: "the criminal Bush clique of nefariously noxious nazi neocon warmongering hawkish capitalists and their zionist puppet masters," and that's just the beginning...
* [[Strawman Political]]: "the criminal Bush clique of nefariously noxious nazi neocon warmongering hawkish capitalists and their zionist puppet masters," and that's just the beginning...
** Which is either [[Hypocritical Humor]] or [[Comically Missing the Point]] or [[Did Not Do the Research]], depending on whether he-she-it is actually in earnest on this...
** Which is either [[Hypocritical Humor]] or [[Comically Missing the Point]] or [[Did Not Do the Research]], depending on whether he-she-it is actually in earnest on this...
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Latest revision as of 23:59, 3 March 2016

"Single-mindedly united as one under the Banner of Songun held aloft by the Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, brilliant statesman, political genius, and invincible military commander"

Songun Blog is a Parody of North Korean propaganda, spanning a blog and a YouTube video channel. The writings and videos proclaim the greatness and glory of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il with a bizarre combination of Engrish and Purple Prose that must be seen to be believed.

The Youtube channel no longer exists, and the blog has not been updated in a while.


Tropes used in Songun Blog include: