October 21, 2021 12:45 am GMT
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Twitter locks down DPRK News, famous parody account mocking North Korea's furious yet florid news agency
North Korea's press office is famously bellicose, hurling bizarre insults and denunciations at the hermit kingdom's adversaries. My own parody of it, the North Korea Press Release Generator, had its time in the sun of Mount Paektu. But far better is @DPRK_News, a Twitter account regularly commenting on topical events in a totalitarian stiff talk so perfectly imitative that it has fooled countless celebrities, politicians and journalists into thinking it was realno matter how absurd or deranged the comical subject matter. — Read the rest
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