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6 Works of Propaganda That Backfired in Hilarious Ways

#6. North Korea Parades South Korean Protester, Accidentally Makes Her Country Sound Awesome

When Lim Su-kyung, a left-leaning activist from South Korea, illegally crossed into the North specifically to participate in [the 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students], “Eternal President” Kim Il Sung was ecstatic: Here they had someone who not only was willing to badmouth the South, but could also look hot while doing it. … But then North Koreans began to notice something odd about this girl: The South, they’d always been told, was rife with starvation, poverty, and ignorance. Lim Su-kyung, however, was clearly well-fed, well-dressed, educated, and unusually still alive for a “political dissident.” Lim blew everyone’s minds by (*gasp*) speaking naturally while casually referring to South Korea’s rapidly increasing wealth and abundance of food, electronics, and cars that anyone could freely buy. This intrigued North Koreans, who thought that such luxuries were gifted only at the government’s leisure (and mostly to government itself).

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