What’s funnier?
The fact that North Korea and its totalitarian dictator — self-proclaimed boy god Kim Jong-un — are now saying that they’ve whipped out some liquor that’s “hangover-free”? Or the fact that their public relations braintrust booms such announcement thinking that the world would digest it as anything other than an absurd, quasi-newsy punchline?
Either way, we believe the world would agree: keep it coming! Just minus the nutty/scary stuff where they tell America and the rest of the West that they can blow them up with their super duper big bang Wile E. Coyote warheads.
But stuff like the following? Yeah, give us more. We’re eating, er, drinking it up.
This from the Mirror:
The liquor is apparently made from plant extract ginseng and the sugar is replaced with burnt rice, which should eliminate both bitterness and a hangover, according toNorth Korean media.
Named Koryo Liquor, it has been produced at Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory, a company that has spent years refining the drink in the country, the state controlled Pyongyang Times reports.
“Koryo Liquor, which is made of six-year-old Kaesong Koryo insam, known as being highest in medicinal effect, and the scorched rice, is highly appreciated by experts and lovers as it is suave and causes no hangover,” according to the article.
Of course, as is tradition with reports like this out of North Korea, experts from around the globe have disputed it as being completely false and, unfortunately, impossible.
Just last year, North Korea claimed that the same aforementioned base ingredient — ginseng — could cure Ebola, AIDS, MERS and SARS.