There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean website. A piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.
Its function is straightforward but important. Whenever leader Kim Jong-un is mentioned, his name is automatically displayed ever so slightly bigger than the text around it. Not by much, but just enough to make it stand out.
Notwithstanding the fact that this effect can easily be achieved with a style sheet, or more complicatedly with JavaScript, only the latter of which would come close to constituting 'programming' in my view; what does this say about North Korea?
Presumably the slightly larger font size is to draw the reader's attention to Kim Jong-un’s illustrious name. But surely the value of this is only in context? In relating to Kim Jong-un’s inspired leadership, this might be desirable. But is relation to Kim Jong-un’s donkey porn collection is another matter.
The less said about Kim Jong-un’s rubber fetish (or self-esteem), the better. We wouldn’t want to draw attention, would we?
 bastard by name
bastard by nature
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