North Korea
North Korea is a country located in East Asia. Alongside the North Korean-produced films Bulgasari and Pulgasari, the country boasts a small presence in kaiju media.
History
- The Last War (1961)
- Bulgasari (1962)
- Pulgasari (1985)
- Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)
Showa era
The Last War
The 38th parallel that separated North and South Korea was one of the main sources of brewing tensions between the Alliance, which supported North Korea, and the Federation, which backed South Korea. These tensions quickly escalated into global nuclear war.
Bulgasari
Murdered by traitors during the Goryeo Dynasty, a skilled martial artist was resurrected as the iron-eating monster Bulgasari to seek vengeance.
Pulgasari
During the Goryeo dynasty, a cruel king ruled Korea, subjecting the peasantry to misery and starvation. An old blacksmith who was sent to prison created a rice doll of a monster, After it came in contact with the blood of the blacksmith's daughter, the doll became Pulgasari, a giant, metal-eating monster. Pulgasari killed the king, but turned on the people of Korea, his inconvenience only ending after the blacksmith's daughter tricked Pulgasari into eating her, causing him to revert back to his original components.
Heisei era
Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
Although North Korea did not physically appear, the country's leader stole the identity of Junzaburo Ohizum and infiltrated the G8 Summit after the Japanese Prime Minister was put out of commission by diarrhea. After the G8's attempts to stop Guilala comically failed, the North Korean leader revealed his identity, and ordered the Japanese interpreters, in reality North Korean agents, to take the G8 leaders hostage. He announced his plan to kill Guilala with a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, France's president successfully seduced one of the spies, who informed him of the plan, and he distracted the other agents in time for Japanese soldiers to detain them. Before being arrested, North Korea's leader successfully launched the nuclear missile at Guilala, which was later caught by Take-Majin.
Comics
- Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters (2011-2012)
- Godzilla: Rulers of Earth (2013-2015)
Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters
At the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a pair of North Korean and South Korean soldiers watched each other from their watchtowers. Godzilla fired his atomic breath down the middle of the DMZ and crushed the North Korean guards, much to the delight of the South Koreans. Godzilla then lumbered into North Korea.
Godzilla: Rulers of Earth
After Lucy Casprell discovered Gaira imprisoned in a Chinese military base, the base's commander explained that Gaira escaped the country that originally held him and that the Chinese lured him here during an experiment. Later, Professor Kenji Ando asked the commander what nation has a kaiju as a weapon, to which the commander replied that their intelligence reports picked up a distress call from a base in North Korea shortly after they conducted an acoustic studies experiment to lure monsters to China.
Books
- GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse (2017)
GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse
Maguma appeared in North Korea in 2024 and ransacked the country, before heading south towards Seoul, South Korea. The United States launched a tactical nuclear strike against Maguma and successfully killed it, marking the first use of nuclear weapons against a kaiju.
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