Watch: The Latest North Korean Video Threat

These CGI-enhanced videos are great, far from intimidating, and dare I say…cute. These media friendly, edited, and enhanced propaganda clips are typically meant for the citizens of the nation, and not the world. A topic we previously discussed in the hype following a similar Chinese video earlier this year. Nonetheless, they allow us to get an idea of what perceptions and fears the producers have, and provides a few moments of entertainment.

“An official North Korean website has released a new propaganda video portraying a multiple rocket attack on South Korea’s presidential Blue House and other government buildings in Seoul.

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It was uploaded on Monday to the DPRK Today website, which had released another video 10 days earlier depicting a nuclear attack on Washington.

The new 88-second video – entitled “If the ultimatum goes unanswered” – shows rockets fired from mobile launchers in the North destroying the buildings in a ball of fire.

It ends with the warning: “Everything will turn into ashes”.

Tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula ever since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test on 6 January.”

Read More: The Guardian

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