By GI Korea on January 25th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Picture of the Day: I Love Jesus In North Korea

A North Korean girl visiting Mangyongdae in Pyongyang.

Via NK Econ Watch.

• Sonagi
  6:32 am on January 25th, 2010 1

  Either that shirt fell off the truck on the way to the port in Dalian or it is a Goodwill/Salvation Army donation that got bundled up and sold with other donated clothing to an overseas buyer. The smaller print about Kids of Jesus and Pixie Dust seems awkward, so I'm guessing the shirt was not made for or sold in North America.

• Junior
  7:12 am on January 25th, 2010 2

  It's just plain offensive.

• Theresa
  10:15 am on January 25th, 2010 3

  Awesome!!

• Leon LaPorte
  10:37 am on January 25th, 2010 4

  Why is it offensive? Then again why is it awesome?

• Teadrinker
  11:08 am on January 25th, 2010 5

  I just hope the girl and her parents don't get in trouble for this.

• JoeC
  11:47 am on January 25th, 2010 6

  Do children or their parents from many none English speaking countries bother to get translations and understand the English inscriptions on clothes they wear?

  I have seen many Koreans, including very young children, wearing clothes with profane writings on it. I don't believe many of them don't understand or care what it means. They wear it for fashion.

  I am sure that little girl in North Korean doesn't think she is making a statement.

• JoeC
  11:48 am on January 25th, 2010 7

  Correction: 'none English speaking countries' should be 'non-English speaking countries'

• NK econWatch
  12:21 pm on January 25th, 2010 8

  There are probably hundreds of these shirts walking around the DPRK that were printed in bulk in China…

• ChickenHead
  12:55 pm on January 25th, 2010 9

  Upon closer inspection, I believe it does not say "I LOVE JESUS".

  The character is wearing an un-tucked white t-shirt over baggy, low-hanging pants with a cap on backwards.

  I believe the correct pronunciation for the graffiti he is tagging is, "I LOVE HEY-ZEUS."

  …which is fitting because this little chollo is dragging behind him a pink and black skateboard with a sweet little heart rather than a cross.

  This shirt is not a statement of Christianity, it is a statement of Mexican gay pride.

  Oye ese!

  I guess Heyzeus is quite the little tinkerbell.

• gerry
  1:56 pm on January 25th, 2010 10

  Goodwill/Salvation army was my first thought.

• gerry
  2:00 pm on January 25th, 2010 11

  I wonder how this clothing makes its way to NK? UN?

• Archie B
  11:31 pm on January 25th, 2010 12

  It's a beautiful shirt with real hope behind the message. A candle in the darkness?

• Leon LaPorte
  6:20 am on January 26th, 2010 13

  Really? I don't think Jesus has been paying much attention to the norK's. Would a true message of hope be in a language 99% of the population cannot read? Oh, I get it. It gives you hope. Well how f@king wonderful. It's a miracle! What a joke and how sad. A message of hope my a$$.

  A message of hope would be a meteor* crashing through Kim Jung Il's bedroom ceiling, striking him dead.

  *Bonus if the meteor has the 1-800 pledge number for the 700 Club inscribed on it.

• Dana
  7:32 am on January 26th, 2010 14

  Agree it's either Salvation Army/Goodwill, or Chinese discards from across the border. Note how bright her shirt is compared to the drabness behind her.

• Leon LaPorte
  8:02 am on January 26th, 2010 15

  "Note how bright her shirt is compared to the drabness behind her."

  I'm not sure if you are trying to make a point or sell Tide.

  Seriously, there is a boy behind her in a much brighter yellow jacket. Further back I see children wearing bright red and green. The adults are wearing darker clothes but that might be common about anywhere.

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