There is a North Korean newsreel going around Weibo on how Americans live today. Its Chinese title is “The Deeply Suffering Imperialist American People”:

I am laughing, incredulous and indignant at the same time. The things the narrator says are what you expect a satirist would come up with and said with such perfect deadpan that I’m almost wondering if it’s a joke (“Again, there are no birds except for these … and they will be eaten on Tuesday. They are yummy.”). But I also can’t believe North Korea can put forth something so preposterously distorted — seriously, is this a joke and is that even current footage or from the U.S.? And then, I can’t believe North Korea can effectively lie like this and get away with it, especially if it’s really not a joke! (Because, yes, while we have gun shootings and snow and a poverty and homelessness problem, most Americans are not subsisting on one cup of snow-coffee a day, and North Korea does not supply aid to hungry Americans, especially in the form of cake.)

But speaking of North Korea and cake…