Geopolitics made simple

A cheeky free commuter newspaper in Australia has come up with a novel, and slightly controversial, way to figure out which Korea is which.

You may wonder why this is necessary. You may have forgotten that the women's soccer match between the Koreas was delayed last Wednesday for an hour when North Korea protested over someone mixing up its flags with the South. And getting its name wrong.

The new mX newspaper, which is the Australia equivalent of the Metro chain, distinguished between the two countries on its medal tally list as Nice Korea and Naughty Korea.

Not everyone finds this wildly funny (and we haven't even heard from Dear Leader Kim Jong-un). Blog commenter Mynameisjef carped: "You Aussies think this is funny. A newspaper mocking two nations..."

For the record, the Star lists the possibly nuclear-armed closed northern dictatorship on the Korean peninsula as PRK in the medal standings. And Nice Korea was the one had two teams which threw a women's badminton doubles game.

 

Comments

[Bob Partridge]

Blog commenter Mynameisjef carped: "You Aussies think this is funny. A newspaper mocking two nations..."

Yeah, I hate it when Canada is called nice. It gets my feathers up in a ruffle.

However, this shouldn't offend either Korea because North Korea would think that they're Nice Korea and South Korea would think they're Nice Korea.

I also find it funny that Mynameisjef decides to use the word Aussie instead of australians. And he lumps all australians together based on one newspaper article. Isn't that offensive?