If they keep winning, they won’t need Nuclear Power

Let’s hear it for the North Korean women’s Under 20 team. Not only did they come away with the world championship by destroying China 5-0 in the final, but they have achieved something in their country that even the threat of imprisonment hasn’t been able to do.

“I was greatly excited to hear the news that our girls won the world championship,” Ri Chol-su, a worker at the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex, told KCNA. “This encouraged us to achieve an unprecedented high boost in the electricity production today.

“We believe this signal victory represents the spirit of Korea. We workers will step up the building of a great prosperous powerful nation in the same spirit displayed by them.”

Of course, we all know the real reason for their historic victory.

“This victory was possible thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong-il, who instilled matchless courage into the footballers and showed boundless love and trust for them while the championship was underway,” said Kim Yong-chol, an instructor at the Korean Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission.

It has been a good couple of weeks for the football teams of brutal regimes.

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