Don’t Watch 2012 in North Korea!
April 1, 2010
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, has said that 2012 will be the year that his country will “open the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower”. This is likely due to April 15, 2012 being the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder.
North Korea’s leaders do not want their people to watch a film in which the Earth is obliterated by a series of massive natural disasters, including earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions, wiping out most of the planet, in the year they are due to rise in international stature.
Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported that “numerous” North Koreans caught watching copies of the film smuggled over the border from China have been arrested.
Authorities are prosecuting anyone caught in possession of the film with “a grave provocation against the development of the state,” a charge that carries a possible prison term of five years, the paper reported, citing anonymous sources.
Source: The Telegraph
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