We’ll Apple-y take it: iTunes give green light to spoof Kim Jong-Un game

The makers of a satirical App game about North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un say Apple has now allowed it on iTunes despite previously rejecting it. Little Dictator, which has been compared to Flappy Bird, shows him as a cartoon character riding on missiles through the “dangerous world outside the Fatherland” to make sure they hit the “evil west”. The game’s creator and chief executive of Built Games Mike Pagano said the iOS version had originally been rejected for flouting guideline 14.1 on Apple’s App Store. This referred to Apps that were “defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harm’s way”.

The game is light-hearted satire, not mean spirited and there is no outward negativity towards North Korea or Mr Kim.

The game’s creator Mike Pagano

But Apple changed its mind two weeks later following an appeal by Pagano and the iOS version is now available alongside the Android and Amazon versions. But Pagano also said he wanted to shine a light on the regime’s human rights issues and internment camps. He said the country was not able to feed its own people, they were isolated from the rest of the world, Pyongyang’s rocket fire was rash and they were running a slander campaign against the west, specifically America.

Not to worry, Kim Jong-Un possesses the hearts of his father and grandfather giving him ultimate endurance and strength to withstand any small mishaps along the way… very few of course!

Built Games PR statement

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