Barkeep, a round of Taedong River Beer!

[jet_porkins]

North Korea airs first televised beer ad. (and therefore its first televised food/drink ad)

SEOUL, South Korea - In an apparent first, North Korea — a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people — has aired a beer commercial on state television.

The advertisement, which lasted nearly three minutes after a news program on Thursday, showed a grinning Korean man with sweat on his face holding a glass of beer, with a caption that read, "Taedong River Beer is the pride of Pyongyang."

The commercial said the beer relieves stress and improves health and longevity. It also showed images of a pub it said was in the capital of Pyongyang, filled with people drinking.

It was unclear how much the beer cost and how many North Koreans could afford it. The country is among the poorest in the world, with an average per capita income of $1,065 in 2008, according to the South's central bank.

The article also comments on the background of the Norks' TV media:

Normally, there are no advertisements on television in North Korea, an isolated, communist country that tightly controls its economy and is wary of capitalistic influences.

Programming consists of news, factory descriptions, some children's animation shows, and documentaries on leader Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung, interspersed with propaganda slogans and music, according to a South Korean Unification Ministry official.

 

[Higlac]

lol those silly Norks.

 

[Warped]

we need to free those people!

 

[Laivasse]

Wonder if I could import some.

 

[Raziaar]

we need to free those people!

Free the shit out of them.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

With radioactive radiation

 

[Eejit]

And napalm

 

[15357]

 

[Skaadi]

^ That's goddamn disgusting

I lol'd slightly

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Such is life in Moscow.

 

[NeptuneUK]

In Communist North Korea, beer adverts don't apply to YOU!

 

[<RJMC>]

sheep said something bad about great leader! sheep must be executed!

 

[MJ12]

"Ehehehe!"

 

[Raziaar]

That poster is such a lie! ****ing propaganda. North Korean babies aren't that chubby!