Can this stuff be for real?

Or is it a spoof site trying to make North Korea look ridiculous by emitting spoof communistic nonsense, a sort of uber-Commie Postmodern Generator putting Marxist phrases in random order and thereby making no difference to the senselessness of the outcome?

Thus:

Pyongyang, October 13 (KCNA) — "The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Is a Socialist State of Juche with Invincible Might", a discourse of General Secretary Kim Jong Il given to Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and Minju Joson, the organ of the DPRK government, is evoking lively response from among all servicepersons and people in the DPRK.

The work reviews with pride the 60-year-long history of the DPRK which has covered the road of the most shining victory under the guidance of the great leader and the great party. And comprehensively expounded in it are the popular and independent character of the DPRK, which has applied the Juche idea in the nation-building and state activities, and its invincible might and the tasks and ways for pushing ahead with the building of a great prosperous powerful nation …

It also implanted in the hearts of the Korean army and people the validity and inexhaustible vitality of the WPK’s Juche-based idea and line of nation-building as more steadfast faith and provided them with highly important guidelines for pushing ahead with the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.

The cool thing about North Korean news is that it never changes.

So, picking a day at random, ie 17 February 1998, one sees this:

Floral basket to G.S. Kim Jong Il from Pres. of Democratic Congo

Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) – General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from President of Democratic Congo Laurent-Desire Kabila on his birthday. The basket was conveyed to an official concerned on Monday by Nellie Ngoy Twite, private secretary of the President of Democratic Congo on a visit to Korea.

Things were hot in N Korea as I celebrated my own birthday in May 2006:

Kim Il Sung initiated the Pothong River improvement project as the first step for carrying out gigantic nature-remaking projects and attended the ground-breaking ceremony of the project on May 21, Juche 35 (1946). He took up a shovel in person at the head of the liberated people, greatly inspiring them in the building of a new country. 

Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, in his report recalled that under the energetic guidance of the President the Pothong River improvement project was completed in a matter of 55 days, turning the river into a river of people’s happiness and prosperity.    

The historic cause of the Juche-oriented gigantic nature-remaking projects started by the President has been successfully carried forward at a new level under the tested leadership of Kim Jong Il. 

He authored the famous work "On Improving and Strengthening Land Administration," providing an immortal great programme to be implemented for carrying out grand nature-remaking projects. 

The reporter stressed the need for all the people to more dynamically carry out gigantic nature-remaking projects true to the last instructions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s far-reaching plan for land administration so as to bring a rosier future to the rich and prosperous country at an early date.

OK OK. I’m convinced.

It is a spoof. But a good one.

I was almost convinced it was real