--- title: North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Gets Glorious Leader Video Game description: With additional assistance from the North Korean leader's best friend, Dennis Rodman canonical: https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-14T20:43:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:40.548Z og:title: Kim Jong Un Will Soon Be the Star of His Very Own Video Game og:description: With additional assistance from the North Korean leader's best friend, Dennis Rodman og:url: https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt749a78a5fbfeab4e/69868f52e53aba28084d2919/1745061151.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4442 og:image:height: 2499 og:image:alt: NKOREA-SKOREA-MILITARY-ANNIVERSARY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Jong Un Will Soon Be the Star of His Very Own Video Game twitter:description: With additional assistance from the North Korean leader's best friend, Dennis Rodman twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt749a78a5fbfeab4e/69868f52e53aba28084d2919/1745061151.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Jong Un Takes on the Capitalists in New Video Game by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 14, 2014 8:43 PM UTC  North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves to the crowd during a military parade at Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang on July 27, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves to the crowd during a military parade at Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang on July 27, 2013.Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 14, 2014 8:43 PM UTC Other video games let you experience[ life as a cat](http://time.com/73564/cat-simulator-video-game/), but now you can pretend to be a dictator. Atlanta-based [Moneyhorse Games ](http://www.moneyhorsegames.com/)created a side-scrolling video game that will be available soon for PCs and mobile devices. It features North Korea’s Kim Jong Un gallivanting through forests on unicorn and dashing through the streets of Pyongyang, battling U.S. paratroopers and eventually setting fire to an American flag. Oh, and of course, Kim Jong Un’s [noted bestie](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/24/a-worms-life-dennis-rodmans-n-korea-escapades-set-for-big-screen/) Dennis Rodman will be involved. As the _Guardian_ [points out](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/glorious-leader-us-developers-to-launch-north-korea-the-video-game), this game — simply titled “Glorious Leader!” — could trivialize the very serious accusations against the dictator’s regime and the many perceived problems within the secluded nation. Moneyhorse Games CEO Jeff Miller told the _Guardian_ that the company hopes to “carefully walk the line of satire without being an apologist for the regime.” ([h/t The Daily Dot](http://www.dailydot.com/gaming/moneyhorse-games-kim-jong-un-side-scroller/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/"},"headline":"Kim Jong Un Takes on the Capitalists in New Video Game","datePublished":"2014-05-14T20:43:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:40.548Z","description":"With additional assistance from the North Korean leader's best friend, Dennis Rodman","url":"https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","North Korea","Internet","Video Games","Kim Jong Un","World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt749a78a5fbfeab4e/69868f52e53aba28084d2919/1745061151.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt749a78a5fbfeab4e/69868f52e53aba28084d2919/1745061151.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NKOREA-SKOREA-MILITARY-ANNIVERSARY","caption":"NKOREA-SKOREA-MILITARY-ANNIVERSARY","creditText":"Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/99375/kim-jong-un-video-game/","name":"Kim Jong Un Takes on the Capitalists in New Video Game"}}]}] ```