China Brings in New North Korea Embargoes

Still unhappy with the way that Kim Jong Un is pissing about with his nuclear weapons program, China has brought in new restrictions on exports to the Hermit Kingdom.

A symbolic slap across the wrists for going ahead with it's rocket launch in February, the bans covers items related to nuclear, biological, chemcial and ballistic fields, and includes goods meant for both the civilian and military industries.  The military and poltiical elite in North Korea lives a life of consumer luxury far removed from the rest of the population, thousands of whom struggle day-to-day, often getting by with nothing but dirt in their stomachs.

The ban on these heavy duty exports follows the closing of a number of key bank accounts at the state run Bank of China, opened by North Korean banks.  Since North Korea relies on China for 83% of its imports, the sanctions will hopefully pressure Kim Jong Un to return to the negotiating table over it's nuclear program.

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Xinhua Passes off Porn as News. Again.

Not content with copying and pasting stories from satirical website The Onion, beleaguered hacks at the state run media outfit, Xinhua have apparently taken to copying and pasting rape porn.  Ahem.



If you've been around long enough, you'll remember that that in 2012, Xinhua ran a story that it stole from The Onion which awarded Kim Jong Un the title of World's Sexiest Man.  That particular article was hastily taken down, but this slideshow uses screengrabs from a rape fetish porn movie, is still alive and kicking.

Purporting to be an "actual record" of an execution, the slideshow shows "the world's darkest side", despite being neither, both Xinhua and The Global Times have published the pictures, trying to pass them off as "news".  The worrying thing is, this isn't the first time it's happened.