Product placement, North Korean style
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean website. A piece of programming that must be included in each page's code. Its function is straightforward but important. Whenever leader Kim Jong-un is mentioned, his name is automatically displayed ever so slightly bigger than the text around it. Not by much, but just enough to make it stand out.
Dave Lee, technology reporter, BBC News
Notwithstanding the fact that this effect can easily be achieved with a style sheet or, slightly more complicatedly, with JavaScript—only the latter of which would come even close to constituting programming
in my view—what does this say about North Korea?
Presumably the slightly larger font size is to draw the reader's attention to Kim Jong-un's illustrious name. But surely the value of this is only in context? In reporting Kim Jong-un's inspired leadership, it's desirable; in relation to Kim Jong-un's rubber fetish, it's another matter.
The less said about Kim Jong-un's donkey porn collection, the better. We wouldn't want to draw attention to that, now, would we?