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NEWS 49 South (and possibly North) Korea gets a taste of cartoonist's work o|gj aa|AD^o|MO)fe ^tto| n|Aft|g aie|-°| ohhzjs. SJ*»I*I ttil uHfLicK 7 ~l A cartoon by Oakville-based cartoonist Steve Nease is discussed on Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded news outlet broadcast to the Korean Peninsula. Voice of America photo David Lea Steve Nease political cartoon discussed on South Korean TV show DAVID LEA dlea@oakvillebeaver.com Oakville residents have long enjoyed the political cartoons of Steve Nease and now South (and possibly North) Korea is getting a taste of his work. A Nease cartoon featur­ ing Santa Claus dodging missiles as he flies over North Korea was picked up by Voice of America (VOA), a U.S., government-funded news outlet, which broad­ casts to the Korean Penin­ sula. The cartoon was intro­ duced by VOA host Eunjung Cho and discussed by guests Ambassador Joseph Detra- ni, former U.S. Special En­ voy for the Six Party Talks during the Bush Adminis­ tration and Frank Jannuzi, president of the Mansfield Foundation, a nonprofit or­ ganization, which works to promote understanding and co-operation among the nations and peoples of Asia and the United States. Nease, who has called Oakville home since 1979, said the broadcaster con­ tacted him after seeing the cartoon on the American political cartoon website www.cagle.com. The longtime Oakville Beaver contributor gave permission for the cartoon to be shown on the show, which was broadcast over the Christmas weekend. "It was very cool. You just never know who is go­ ing to see your cartoons and might want to use them," said Nease. "Most of the permission requests I get are for text­ books, manuals, presenta­ tions, that sort of thing. I think this might be the first time I've had one requested for a TV show." The episode, which is in English with Korean subti­ tles, began with discussions about America's recently announced National Secu­ rity Strategy, missile de­ fence and the worldwide WannaCry ransomware at­ tack, which the United States has attributed to North Korea. Nease's cartoon was dis­ cussed during a segment of the program called Photo Moment, where the guests discuss an interesting photo (in this case a cartoon) con­ cerning North Korea. While Nease said the Santa cartoon was intended as a joke about North Ko­ rea's ongoing missile tests the discussion surrounding it on Voice of America took a fairly serious tone. "North Korea has this habit of celebrating impor­ tant holiday's in the United States with missile launch­ es. I think July 4 has been a favourite time for them to launch recently," said Jan­ nuzi. "I hope maybe the new year will bring a different excuse to pay attention to North Korea, something peaceful and not as dramat­ ic as a missile test." Detrani took the discus­ sion one step further warn­ ing North Korea not to car­ ry out additional missile tests. "We've seen this on the 4th of July, we've seen it on other holidays. This is not what you want to do," he said. "North Korea has to tru­ ly understand that the inter­ national community is very very upset with North Ko­ rea's behaviour and to do something at a time like this, of that nature, would truly be beyond the pale and there would be significant consequences. So you don't want to go down that road." Nease said the cartoon is not about North Korea in­ sulting America by testing missiles on Christmas Eve, but simply about Santa needing to take a detour around the troubled nation. "Don't take it quite so se­ riously guys," he said. This is not the first time someone has had a serious reaction to Nease's work. One lighthearted car­ toon, which resulted in a couple letters to the editor, showed then Premier Dal­ ton McGuinty with his head up his rear end, literally, when it came to a particular issue. One person Nease is hop­ ing will have a good sense of humour about his Santa cartoon is North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un. "I might be on his secret hit list now. I hope not," joked Nease. "I was going to draw him hanging onto one of the rockets, waving at Santa, but didn't end up doing it. He is fun to draw though." Nease has been drawing political cartoons since 1978. In 2011 the Ontario Com­ munity Newspaper Associ­ ation recognized Nease with the Cartoonist of the Year Award. The Voice of America ep­ isode featuring Nease's car­ toon can be seen at https:// www.voakorea.com/ a/4176438.html. The Gift that Keeps on Giving! 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