Among all those usually militaristic North Korean songs, "The General Uses Warp" (장군님 축지법 쓰신다) seems to be the most lampooned on, both because the anime-style music, as well as the reality-warping lyrics. Of course, almost no-one is mentioned by name, so you can theoretically insert anybody as the "Leader" (수령, which actually refers to Kim Il-Sung) or the succeeding "General" (장군, actually refers to Kim Jong-Il).
Still, two of the lampoons, I think, stand out of the others. The first one is actually commercially distributed, and features another lampoon on J.S. Bach, my favourite composer. I will talk about that in a later post.
Today's video is created by a South Korean, using the song to fit it on one of their former leaders, Chun Doo-hwan (전두환). He's the president of South Korea between 1980 and 1988, roughly equal to the period of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K. As a general himself, he's known for his continuation of military dictatorship, though probably not as bad as his northern counterpart, whose economy was failing because the USSR was also falling apart.
The film extracted for the video was mostly news montages of President Chun embarking visits to other countries. Surprisingly I found them fitting very well to the music, with the combined effect of suggesting he had completed these visits by warping space-time (even though he'd still utilize planes and limos to reduce shock among the world, as apparently suggested). This seems an even better propaganda video than the original North Korean one, as neither Kim Il-Sung nor Kim Jong-Il appeared personally in the original video.
The video can be seen below:
On a further note, the black-and-white person at about 2:00 was Park Chung-hee (박정희), the famous yet assassinated president, as well as the father of the recently deposed lady president, Park Geun-hye (박근혜). Presumbly the elder Park was included here to fill the role of the Leader (수령).
