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North Korean Beer Ad: Long, Weird, Full of Lies


By Dan Mitchell
Posted Monday, July 6, 2009 - 6:43pm

In what is reportedly the first television advertisement ever run in North Korea, the Taedong River brewery got nearly two and a half minutes of airtime after a "news" show on Thursday. The spot is about as weird as you might expect:

  • Dan Mitchell has written for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.