{"id":38951,"date":"2014-01-27T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=38951"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:02","slug":"kim-jong-un-bieber-just-a-few-arrests-from-being-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/01\/kim-jong-un-bieber-just-a-few-arrests-from-being-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un: Bieber Just a Few Arrests from Being My Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38952\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bieber-arrest.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38952\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38952\" alt=\"Credit: Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation Department.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bieber-arrest-300x221.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bieber-arrest-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bieber-arrest.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation Department.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un announced on state television today that he believes the pop star Justin Bieber is \u201cjust a few arrests away\u201d from visiting North Korea as his friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin, if you are watching right now, this is my message to you,\u201d Kim said. \u201cI stand ready and willing to be your B.F.F.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mercurial Kim said that he would seek Mr. Bieber\u2019s aid in boosting North Korea\u2019s slumping pop-music industry, which has failed to generate any hits comparable to South Korea\u2019s \u201cGangnam Style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin Bieber could be our Minister of Culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The dictator said he understood that Mr. Bieber\u2019s fans were concerned about the direction the singer was heading of late, but he offered this reassurance: \u201cHe is heading to North Korea. It\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/borowitzreport\/2014\/01\/kim-jong-un-bieber-just-a-few-arrests-from-being-my-friend.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mercurial Kim said that he would seek Mr. Bieber\u2019s aid in boosting North Korea\u2019s slumping pop-music industry, which has failed to generate any hits comparable to South Korea\u2019s \u2018Gangnam Style.\u2019 \u201cJustin Bieber could be our Minister of Culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}