North Korea releases racist screed against Obama.

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North Korean Racism Rears its Ugly Head

By Joshua Keating

Usually, when North Korea’s state propagandists want to troll the world, such as when they called South Korean President Park Geun-hye a “despicable whore” last week or America a “living hell” earlier this week, they provide an English translation.

So it’s a little surprising that back on May 2 the Korean Central News Agency published its racist screed directed at President Barack Obama only in Korean, thus risking it being missed in the United States entirely. However, the piece was noticed by an American blogger and, today, reported in the Washington Post.

The diatribe calls Obama a “dirty fellow” who “still has the figure of a monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years” and declares that he should “live with a group of monkeys in the world’s largest African natural zoo and lick the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators.”

What exactly is going on here? The screed fits in with the argument of journalist and North Korea watcher B.R. Myers who writes in his book The Cleanest Race that the country’s official ideology is defined far more by racism than Marxism. Myers summarizes the country’s government ideology as “The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader.” He also suggests that "Juche," the country's defining political creed, is more like what is traditionally considered the extreme right than the extreme left of the political spectrum and that the country is “ideologically closer to America's adversaries in World War II than to communist China and Eastern Europe.”

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