Last week's question: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has launched a Netflix-like online service called Manbang, giving his subjects on-demand access to propaganda-filled movies and TV shows. Please come up with the title of a North Korean version of a famous TV show or Hollywood film that the new service might broadcast.
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THE WINNER: "Despot Housewives"
Joe Frank, Scottsdale, Ariz.
SECOND PLACE: "Better Not Call Seoul"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
THIRD PLACE: "Mr. Smith Goes to a Labor Camp"
Aaron Prebenda, Hobbs, N.M.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Nukes of Hazzard"
Jeff Black, New York City
"North Korea's Got Tyrant"
Rick Harms, Nisswa, Minn.
"Gone With The Whim"
Cecelia Sadtler, Banks, Ore.
"Everybody Loves Kim"
Ron Brodrick, Alameda, Calif.
"Whose Food Line is it Anyway?"
Malcolm Phelan, San Francisco
"BeWatched"
Rich Greene, Novato, Calif.
"The Really Big Bang Theory"
Platt R. Safford, Kent, Ohio
"Start Wars"
Brian Jordan, Cambridge, Mass.
"The Nutty Aggressor"
Dave Vincent, Lynnwood, Wash.
"Miracle on 38th Parallel"
Dr. Ilene G. Block, Indianapolis
"Northern Explosions"
Robert G. Huntington, Richfield Springs, N.Y.
"Cool Hand Nuke"
Dennis Ryan, Janesville, Wis.
"The Jong and the Restless"
Annette Entin, North Caldwell, N.J.
"West Died Story"
Jeffrey Kaufman, Belford, N.J.
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