The Trump WH now approaches its more surreal moments as it gives the DPRK credibility, and gets nothing except a photo-op which alone should make the Trumpian cult base remind themselves of why the Korean War was fought.
So Trump shows a iPad video of something hyping himself but imitating the most recent classic of DPRK state propaganda. Think of the Robert McFarlane key-shaped cake and the Iranians.
How meta-stupid, if not patronizing, to show a crass imitation of their own propaganda and expect it to have the same effect. Lord “Haw-Haw” Dampnut shows a media demonstration that mimics their propaganda, thinking that it would have the same effect, or that the DPRK might even redistribute it. Steve Bannon must still be talking to Agent Orange.
Trump pimps the destiny and leaves a buck on the dresser.
During Monday night’s unprecedented summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the topics discussed included denuclearization, foreign policy—and the potential for North Korea to develop profitable beachside hotels, according to USA Today.
When asked by a journalist Tuesday about a denuclearized North Korea, Trump said that he showed the delegation a video projecting two outcomes for the nation: “one of moving back, and one of moving forward.” The video suggested, USA Today writes, that “Kim needed to ‘shake the hand of peace’ if he wanted to stand any chance of taking his country out of ‘isolation.’”
Trump expanded on his answer by emphasizing the nation’s potential for economic development. “As an example, they have great beaches,” Trump told the assembled reporters. “You see that whenever they are exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, boy, look at that view, wouldn't that make a great condo?
And I explained it. I said, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world. Think of it from the real estate prospective. You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It's great. ... (Kim) looked at that tape. He looked at that iPad. I’m telling you, they really enjoyed it, I believe. OK?”
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It is baroque moment for the Trump regime to show Kim Jong-un a promotional video mimicking their classic propaganda film series. It would be even more meta- to think that Trump’s attack on Canada trade was meant to help the Singapore summit, but maybe Larry Kudlow’s heart condition shares something with Melania’s kidney.
For most North Koreans, perceptions of Canada are shaped largely by a popular 62-part film series that left a strange, curiously favourable impression of Canada as a land of sports cars, taekwondo and mild weather — but also a place compromised by South Korean spies.
The propaganda epic is called Nation and Destiny, and was commissioned in the 1990s by the late "Dear Leader" and movie-mad dictator Kim Jong-il.
"Ah yes, Nation and Destiny!" Ken Eom exclaimed in a recent interview at an English school for North Korean refugees in Seoul. "Yeah, it was really popular in North Korea. I watched all of them."
What Eom recalled best from the series — reportedly the country's most expensive film production ever, at the time — are a handful of scenes from early episodes shot in what's presented as cosmopolitan "Canada, Ottawa." Eom believes it was his first-ever glimpse of the Western world.
The protagonist is Choi Hong Hi, who was born in modern-day North Korea and is regarded as the founder of taekwondo. Eom remembers a flashback of Choi taking a road trip through a pastoral landscape — "a long journey from Canada to New York," as Choi declares while reminiscing in one scene.
"He drives sports car with his wife, through the highway, Ottawa," Eom said. "This one scene, that's really, really popular scene in North Korea. Many people thinking, 'Oh! One day I like to become something like him!' Because in North Korea, there is no exist life like that."
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