Getting back for Homefront
Hunting Yankee is a new game out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that’s sure to rankle US nationalists just three weeks after president Donald Trump threatened the DPRK with “.”
“The 3D-amusement entertainment program Hunting Yankee is a fighting game of shooting and knocking down Yankees with a sniper gun… behind enemy lineꦦs,” according to DPRK outlet , as translated by . Arirang-Meari reports the game “has become popular,” but not if it’s playable on phones or PC. It adds that, “Users can perform a variety of special actions in a virtual world reminded of a cliff-hanger battle scene.”
It looks about as bad as Homefront: The Revolution, a paranoid and realiꦍty-detached series wherein the small, far-off nation somehow invades and takes over modern America, allowing the richest and most powerful countr🍸y in the history of the world to cosplay as plucky underdogs.
The DPRK isn’t the only country cashing in on anti-American sentiment. Over in China, this year’s smash hit is a Rambo-style action movie, , wherein the lead has to kill a bunch of evil US soldiers in Africa who massacre civilians with drones for no reason. It is to make $800 million in one territory (the other is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which made $936.7 million in North America alone). Maybe Wolf Warrior 3 will have a similar moment to Rambo III, which inserted a note of♑ support in the end credit💃s for the , a group which included eventual American enemy Osama bin Laden.
US interventionism coming home to roost comes full circle in the Hunting Yankee discussion. “How many Americans know that ‘over a period of three years or so,’ to Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, ‘we killed off … 20 percent of the population’?,” Mehdi Hasan explains at . The DPRK has a lot of with America — the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against others — even if Americans have long forgotten them.
[Arirang-Meari]
[NK News]
Published: Aug 28, 2017 05:30 pm