Unreal, that’s all I can think of. The North Korean Children’s parade, featuring more than 18,000 children has to be seen to believed. 2000-3000 children are upfront, performing extremely intricate gymnastics routines, while 15,000 or more children stand behind a massive set of cue cards (no that’s not a giant screen!), switching them out perfectly in sync with the routine occurring in front of them. This is absolutely stunning and frightening all in one, I loathe thinking about what the consequences are for holding up the wrong cue card or falling during a somersault.

Watch the North Korean Children’s Parade after the jump..

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I love reading about North Korea, it naturally sickens me to think of their human rights violations and other atrocities, but the fact that they are such an isolated nation with some pretty wonderous architecture leads me to search out any bit of information I can find coming out of the country. So to be able to witness their mis-information machine in motion is even more interesting. Enter the Korean Central News Agency, which is the state-run propaganda machine of the DPRK, founded in 1946 and the sole creator and distributor of ‘news’ within the DPRK. They transmit their news in several languages and appear to have ties to a foreign news agency in Japan who re-publishes their news on the internet for all of us to witness.

Some choice quotes and links to articles after the jump…

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