Twitter pulls the plug on DPRK_News.

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I fell for it at first. It's just like what I would hear on NK shortwave broadcasts.

Very sorry to see Patrick and Derrick shutting down the DPRK parody account, which has given much joy over the years and has oft tripped the foolish and incautious. That, of course, was always the point - you’d have to be foolish and incautious to fall for it./1

Link to tweet

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1. Somehow, I don't think Fox will be squealing "Cancel culture!" over this lockout

Parody, particularly online, is a dicey business when the gullible, the humorless, and the just plain stupid get involved.