A couple of reporters from the Sun - yes, the Sun - are on a tour of North Korea, revealing, in a shock exposé, what life is really like in the "secretive state where lights go out at 11pm, gum is given as change and no one knows Jacko's dead".
And the horror stories they've uncovered! Oh yes:
Animals made to skate in secretive state.
This is the sickest show on earth — a North Korean circus where rollerskating animals in gaudy costumes are forced to perform up to three times a day.
The Sun’s shocking pictures expose the despotic regime’s everyday cruelty that will outrage animal lovers.
Glum muzzled bears are put through humiliating routines walking on two legs or on skates for an audience of mostly soldiers.
Baboons wearing co-ordinating outfits perform faultless slam-dunks in strictly choreographed basketball games.
Secretly filmed during our week-long stay in the Communist state, the show highlighted the brutal mindset of the ruling classes.
No space yet for our intrepid reporters to report on the estimated 200,000 or more political prisoners held in the prison camps, or the widespread starvation. First things first though.
Being flippant about the abuse of animals is pretty disgusting. Do you not understand that it's possible to care about the welfare of both human beings and other animals too?
Posted by: Ralph | June 04, 2012 at 05:03 PM