Extreme Comedy In North Korea

Mads Bruegger, a Danish journalist and mad prankster working for Denmark's public television, pulled the ultimate prank on the Stalinist regime of North Korea by telling the commies that he and two South Korea-born Danes, Simon Jul and Jacob Nossel, were part of a left-wing theatre troupe that supported wacky evil dictator Kim Jong Il and wished to visit as part of a cultural exchange.

In a sort of "Borat Meets Kim" mockumentary production, Bruegger and his pals appeared on North Korean TV, marched in an anti-U.S. parade in Pyongyang, and praised the North Korean missile tests. Bruegger told the dimwitted commies that Denmark should follow North Korea's example and "test fire missiles to defend our strong Danish culture."

The mockumentary will be broadcast on Danish TV Channel DR2 in four parts beginning December 1st. You can almost see the North Koreans slapping their hands on their heads now. Hopefully, Kim will have somebody shot for this. Somebody big.

In one clip, the Danish jesters proudly presented a North Korean official with a pizza shovel as a gift to Our Dear Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il. Said Bruegger, "No one grasped the thick irony and satire. I believe we only survived because fifty years of mind control has wiped out any sense of irony and satire." Nobody in North Korea caught on. Nobody called their bluff. They got away with the joke completely.

It wasn't all laughs and giggles. When they were placed in front of the parade, it got a little hairy. Said Bruegger, "It's a parade leading up to a missile launch. It's a direct message to the US. We were told it's a "peace march" but the rhetoric is "Kill, murder, smash!" and for some reason they put Jacob and I in the front of this marching legion of workers. So in a way they've used us for their own propaganda. You could see us on TV that evening.
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Being there was one of the scariest situations I've ever been in. Nürnberg in Nazi Germany was like Roskilde Festival compared with that. But the scene is important because Jacob Nossel gets scared and starts shouting, "I want to go home, I'm scared"... I try to calm him and the interpretor is asking "What's happening, what is he saying?" and I say "He's very happy, but tired." And I think it's a scene that tells a lot about the society."