pulgasari

As you now know, Kylie and I saw Argo last night which is based on a true story about how the CIA and Canada used a Hollywood cover story for getting some trapped state department employees out of a very difficult situation in Iran. She found a bunch of other stranger than fiction CIA spy stories (click here), and I came across this bizarre NORTH KOREAN movie called Pulgasari.

Apparently in 1978 under the orders of Kim Jong Il the North Koreans kidnapped a South Korean movie director and used the Japanese Godzilla team to produce a North Korean version with political themes interwoven in the story. Those North Koreans are zany!