Hong Kong -- A bizarre three-and-a-half minute North Korean propaganda video -- depicting a city resembling New York but with its skyscrapers on fire -- was pulled from YouTube this week after videogame maker Activision said those scenes were lifted from its top-selling game "Call of Duty."
Clicking on the now-defunct YouTube link brings up the message: "This video has been removed by the user. Sorry about that." But the video can still be found elsewhere on the internet.
The anti-U.S. video also
employs an instrumental version of "We Are the World," written by
Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, while a sleeping North Korean man
apparently dreams himself aboard a North Korean space shuttle launched
into orbit around the Earth.
Just after the video's
two-minute mark, a city covered by a large American flag is seen
apparently being bombarded by a missile attack.
The Korean-language
caption that scrolls across the screen says, "Black smoke was billowing
somewhere in America. Maybe the group of Satan, who has been habitually
conducting an invasion war, are burning in the fire they set
themselves."
The release of this
video, the latest in a series of regular propaganda videos, comes as
experts and officials widely believe North Korea is on the verge of its third nuclear test, following trials in 2006 and 2009.
The country's use of
copyrighted material is not new. In 2012, Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh
and a cast of Disney characters appeared at a Pyongyang theater for
newly-ascended North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The Walt Disney Company
denounced the use of its characters and said in a statement, "This was
not licensed or authorized by The Walt Disney Company," according to the Associated Press.
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