North Korea Trolls American Poverty In Greatest Propaganda Video Ever

Living in tents. Drinking coffee made from snow. This is your life in America, filtered through the incisive prism of North Korean propaganda.

The world's most militarized society is shaking its head over what it describes as an epidemic of Americans 'buying guns to kill each other, especially children.' North Korea's latest propaganda video ' released this week and packed with stock footage that would impress Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ' brings trolling to the next level.

Fun facts about America, according to North Korea: there are no more birds in the U.S., as they've all been eaten by the starving masses. American houses 'blow down very easily,' leaving the American Red Cross to supply emergency housing only thanks to humanitarian aid (including tasty cakes) from Pyongyang. Other parts of America are 'often disguised as foreign countries in Europe.' (Just go with it.) Most Americans are entitled to a single cup of coffee daily, made from snow. This what Dennis Rodman is telling new bro Kim Jong-un?

'They this is how they live in modern-day America: huddled together,' says the video, showing a supposed American homeless shelter of spartan metal bunk beds, 'the poor, the cold, the lonely, and the homosexual.' Presumably, these are heavily armed poor, cold, lonely homosexuals, ready to kill children.

As with much great trolling, North Korea is taking some of its great weaknesses ' the grinding poverty, food shortages and official bellicosity ' and projecting them onto its adversary. The low-budget production values and occasional cinematic inaccuracies (that pay phone in the subway doesn't look like an American model) give the effort a certain inadvertent flourish.

You certainly wouldn't know from the video that North Korea's threatened its southerly neighbor with nuclear annihilation after unilaterally withdrawing from the armistice that has kept a fragile peace on the Korean peninsula for over half a century. Recent successes in its missile tests and nuclear detonations, mixed with a new young leader and tougher international economic sanctions appear to have prompted a surge in Pyongyang threats.

The North has done nothing so far, short of releasing videos portraying its soldiers' Beatlemania-esque love for Kim and threatening an annual U.S.-South Korean military exercise. The Navy says its routine presence on and near the peninsula ' destroyers, anti-ballistic missile cruisers and the aircraft carrier USS George Washington ' is on watch, and thus far has no plans to augment it.