Hwang Jang Yop: Would you listen to this "dirty and silly guy talk nonsense"?
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North Korea is the world’s last manufacturer of vintage Stalinist boilerplate, as this 2003 story about the recently deceased defector Hwang Jang Yop demonstrates so beautifully. I think that economic protectionists and historical preservationists need to put their heads together and develop a rationale for preserving this almost lost art of rhetoric. As they say in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, “This is really enough to make even a cat to laugh.” (more…)