It's bad enough that they're denied the potential prosperity of their southern cousins by a brutal, oppressive regime, but they're also expected to take part in charades like this.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/19/staged_north_koreans_extremely_emotional_over_kim_jong-ils_death.html
Can you get any less realistic?
Sad.
Originally posted by sh76Why it is assumed that any expression of grief over a dictator's death must be staged?
It's bad enough that they're denied the potential prosperity of their southern cousins by a brutal, oppressive regime, but they're also expected to take part in charades like this.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/19/staged_north_koreans_extremely_emotional_over_kim_jong-ils_death.html
Can you get any less realistic?
Sad.
Originally posted by no1marauderWatch the video.
Why it is assumed that any expression of grief over a dictator's death must be staged?
Real people don't stand in perfect rows and uniformly wail and moan for minutes on end at the death of a political leader.
How about the guy/gal who was literally pounding the pavement in "grief" about 10 straight times. Do you really think that's genuine?
Originally posted by sh76Who knows what people in such situations do? North Korea is a weird place to us; why should we expect people there to act like they do in Manhattan?
Watch the video.
Real people don't stand in perfect rows and uniformly wail and moan for minutes on end at the death of a political leader.
How about the guy/gal who was literally pounding the pavement in "grief" about 10 straight times. Do you really think that's genuine?
It's not staged. The cult of personality in N. Korea is shockingly strong.
In some cases, it goes as far as Kim Jong Il being worshiped as a god -- some people going as far as believing Kim-Il-Sung created the world, and that Kim Jong Il can control the weather.
Are the people you see on camera his most die-hard and crazed supporters? Certainly. But I don't believe for a second this is staged.
Unless you mean to say that it's the outcome of a staged cult of personality, in which case I agree.
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Originally posted by sh76But they sure know how to have fun!
It's bad enough that they're denied the potential prosperity of their southern cousins by a brutal, oppressive regime, but they're also expected to take part in charades like this.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/19/staged_north_koreans_extremely_emotional_over_kim_jong-ils_death.html
Can you get any less realistic?
Sad.
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Originally posted by generalissimoConsider also that when the women's short skating team qualified for the Olympics but the men didn't, the women were not allowed to go because it would not be "seemly" to go without the men.
Its an intriguing phenomenon that despite being a Communist country, North Korea seems so feudalistic in its order of succession.
Worse than feudal.
Originally posted by sh76Had you considered they were mourning his psychotic son taking his place? I heard he is even crazier. 😛
[b]Watch the video.
Real people don't stand in perfect rows and uniformly wail and moan for minutes on end at the death of a political leader.