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VBS - CURRENT AFFAIRS IS A GOOD REASON TO WATCH TV ON THE INTERNET

While the planet flips its shit over

the Taepodong missile beloved Aquarian Kim Jong-il's camp launched into the Pacific Ocean/orbit this weekend

(depending on which side's propaganda you subscribe to), we thought it'd be a good time to get reacquainted with our plucky little not-quite-so-stable Communist buddy and now potential nuclear annihilator.

Go here

to watch the Vice Guide to North Korea, our 14-part infiltration of the land that time, food, and sanity forgot. And if that's a little too "Western-centric" for you collegiate types, here's some

firsthand testimonials from North Korean refugees

who were imprisoned and tortured by the regime and then ducked out of there.