More Giant Bunnies!
by Richardson ~ February 4th, 2007. Filed under: Economics, Hunger & Famine, North Korea. Cry or laugh, I couldn’t decide:
Few people raise bigger bunny rabbits than Karl Szmolinsky, who has been producing long-eared whoppers since 1964. His favorite breed, German gray giants, are the size of a full-grown beagle and so fat they can barely hop.Last year, after the retired chauffeur entered some of his monsters in an agricultural fair, word of his breeding skills spread to the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. Diplomats looked past the cute, furry faces with the twitching noses and saw a possible solution to their nation’s endemic food shortage: an enormous bunny in every Korean pot.
The North Koreans approached Szmolinsky in November and asked whether he’d advise them on how to start a rabbit breeding program to help “feed the population,” the 67-year-old pensioner recalled in an interview at his home in Eberswalde, an eastern German town a few miles from the Polish border…
This is symptomatic of the bizzarre failure that is North Korea. As happened in Nazi Germany as it neared complete and utter defeat (the heaviest tank, the first operational rocket-powered interceptor, etc.), North Korean decision makers are turning to magic solutions in a desperate effort to provide a bandaid solution to a fundamentally bankrupt society.
Read the rest here. It’s funny and sad at the same time. I suppose that is one definition of absurd.
February 5th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Its obvious the Great Fat one will soon be giving another banquet for his close advisors with the main course being ……
February 5th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Now that it’s been decided - Kim the janggunnim has gotten somewhere the idea - that rabbits are the best way to get some strips of meat in the people’s soup, what else can the poor diplomats do. KCNA seems to be ripe with stories about raising rabbits and Kim Jong-il giving advice and praise to rabbit breeders. In this story, for example, a woman teacher (yes, a 녀교원) whom KJI praised for great work in rabbit breeding during a on-the-spot guidance tour was later given a Ph.D. for her research on breeding rabbits.