By I don’t have a problem with this though I suspect the Kim Jong-il apologists will say that this is once again a sign that the regime is opening up:
North Koreans got a rare treat this week: a state TV broadcast of the British soccer film “Bend it Like Beckham.”
The 2002 film starring Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers and Parminder Nagra aired Dec. 26 — a break from the regular programming of news, documentaries and soap operas in North Korea, where Western films are largely off limits.
“This was the first Western film to be broadcast on North Korean TV, and as well as football covered issues such as multiculturalism, equality and tolerance,” British Ambassador Peter Hughes told The Associated Press from Pyongyang, where his embassy helped arranged the Boxing Day broadcast.
Football is extremely popular in North Korea, which sent its men to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and whose women’s team is a regional powerhouse. [Yahoo News]
Read the rest at the link, but apparently the movie was edited by the North Koreans before being broadcast.
2:28 am on December 31st, 2010 1
Next one team america?
6:20 am on December 31st, 2010 2
#1
I second that. NK can even edit it as they like.
11:28 am on December 31st, 2010 3
I they edited Team America, there's be no movie left…I guess they could show the first scene with Paris burning.
Figures they'd show a movie with Kiera Knighley in it. "See people! In Hollywood too they are dying of starvation!"
12:40 pm on December 31st, 2010 4
I bet they edited out all the scenes involving food.
4:43 pm on December 31st, 2010 5
#5
I heard the movie was so edited that what they broadcasted was only 1 hour long.
5:31 pm on December 31st, 2010 6
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