In addition to a myriad of light entertainment videos, Chinese mobile phone owners can now download film clips of the Korean War and emotive war anthems to celebrate the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.

According to the official Xinhua news agency, subscribers to the country’s second largest mobile operator, China Unicorn, are being offered the service for about $1 USD a month.

“I believe it will be popular since we have so many military fans in China,” said company official Yu Peng. “We have more than 300,000 pictures of weapons and military figures in our database along with clips of hundreds of movies, such as ‘Battle for Berlin’, ‘Normandy Invasion’ and ‘Shang Ganling’, a movie about the Korean War,” he added.

China Unicorn insists that the scheme isn’t just a moneymaking venture, but to celebrate the PLA’s 80th anniversary, which will be marked on Wednesday. Closer to home, we’re not sure we can see the idea of people paying for mobile video clips of past American military conflicts, really.

[Via Yahoo! News]

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