propaganda like this cracks me up.

[Broletariat]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/world-cup-2010/north-korean-team-will-be-sent-to-coal-mines-as-punishment-reports-say/story-fn5epklx-1225885983984


Unfortunately, crazed dictator Kim Jong-il chose the 7-0 mauling at the hands of Portugal to be the first football game ever broadcast in the impoverished communist nation.

Crazed dictator is where I started loling, communist nation really made me laugh.

[Sam_b]

chose the 7-0 mauling at the hands of Portugal to be the first football game ever broadcast in the impoverished communist nation

This isn't true.



Some members of the 1966 North Korean World Cup squad were reputedly sent to labour camps after throwing away a 3-0 lead against Portugal in the quarter-finals.


Neither is this.

[Foldered]

when a journalist (or whatever) uses "reputedly," it's a decent rule of thumb to just not believe what follows.

[Aesop]

Reminds me of a Paper in the Uk called 'THE SUN'.