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A scene from ¡°Team America: World Police," produced by Paramount
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The International Herald Tribune reported Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has displaced former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as the No.1 bad guy in U.S. pop culture, including movies, TV, video games and magazines.
According to the paper, North Koreans and Islamic fundamentalists have joined Nazis, Japanese, Soviets and Colombian drug dealers on the list of Hollywood movie bad guys. In the puppet film ¡°Team America: World Police¡±, Kim shoots his translator in the head and then feeds UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to sharks. In a recent edition of the magazine ¡°Parade¡±, Kim topped the list of the world¡¯s 10 worst dictators. In the family film ¡°The Pacifier¡±, Vin Diesel is a U.S. Navy Seal who watches over five kids while taking on the couple next door, who just happen to be North Korean spies.
Besides Kim, North Korea and its nuclear facilities feature as favorite targets for destruction by the good guys. In a video game by LucasArts, players can blow up a building with red Korean letters that read, ¡°Yeongbyeon Nuclear Material Reprocessing.¡± The IHT said that while the U.S. government has vowed it will not attack North Korea, psychologists point out that by designating Kim Jong-il as ¡°evil¡±, U.S. President George W. Bush has given the green light to the demonization of North Korean leaders.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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