Pulgasari!

Still downloading, but posting now, to make sure I post before I either A) Get so completely absorbed by this newly-discovered world of North Korean Kaiju cinema that I never make it back to the Internet or B) find out it sucks so bad that don't want to tell you guys about it.

From the wikimind - "It was produced by South Korean directorShin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders ofKim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4299325314122049461&q=movie+duration0#

"We cannot live away from his breast"

... is an official North Korean slogan about Kim Jong Il. It's included in a new book “The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves — and Why It Matters” by B.R. Myers. Here's a partial description of the book:

... he includes a fascinating analysis of Mr. Kim’s depiction as an essentially — and crucially — feminine military leader. His regime presents North Korea more as a motherland than a fatherland, Mr. Myers writes, and he cites official slogans about Mr. Kim like “We Cannot Live Away From His Breast.” The lack of a patriarchal authority figure, he says, “may also have helped the regime preserve stability by depriving people of a target to rebel against.”

Wow. North Korea is amazing.