North Korean kids show airs graphic rabbit killing to slam ‘American bastards’

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North Korean kids show airs graphic rabbit killing to slam ‘American bastards’

‘Grandfather’s Old Tales’ casts US as the ‘imperialist wolf’ that devours live animal in bloody propaganda scene

Seung-Yeon Chung | Shreyas Reddy September 18, 2023

North Korean kids show airs graphic rabbit killing to slam ‘American bastards’

Children watch as a wolf representing "American bastards" brutally kills and eats a live rabbit on a North Korean kids TV show | Image: KCTV (Sept. 17, 2023)

A North Korean children’s show featured a graphic scene of an “imperialist wolf” killing and eating a live rabbit in its latest episode, continuing a recent propaganda trend of kids’ programs castigating the U.S. in extreme terms.

In an episode broadcast by Korean Central Television (KCTV) on Sunday, the popular children’s TV program “Grandfather’s Old Tales” showed the grandfather host taking children to visit a class education house.

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Seung-Yeon Chung is a state media specialist at NK News. She previously worked in the Department of Unification and Foreign Ministry at Korean Broadcast System (KBS).

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