Gangnam Style Goes North as Kim Jong Style

The only question perhaps is: Why did it take this long?

Though South Korean rapper Psy's Gangnam Style went massively viral in mid-August, it has taken more than a month for a North Korean Kim Jong Style parody to surface. With that premise, you're more than halfway there, but BarelyPolitical's spoof gets in a few good lines, such as "The national pastime is to be oppressed" and "work, work, work, then sleep...torture."

It's funny and of course, hugely sad as well if you're read Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea or Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden.

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