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Kim Jong Il Bowls For Dollars With The Dude

  • Bloomberg, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:10 PM

A Bloomberg report states that North Korea's Dear Leader is throwing some state-supported muscle behind a burgeoning mobile video game market, responsible for, among other games, bowling game based on the 1998 Coen brother's classic "The Big Lebowski." Fox published this and other games developed by the North Korean company General Federation of Science and Technology.

But Kim is playing with fire, warns Andrei Lankov, an academic specializing in North Korea at Seoul- based Kookmin University. "These activities help to fund the regime, but at the same time they bring knowledge of the outside world to people who could effect change."

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