Kim Jong Il Dead

[ZenGum]

Clearly, they're in mourning.




No, wait, it's always like that.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by classicman

I wonder if and how much they were paid to cry for a man who murdered millions.
I didn't actually see any tears either. Lots of wiping and wailing, but no real tears.
Dunno, maybe its just me, but it looks staged.

.... why not? I don't know why the Korean public would be demonstrably smarter than, say, the American public. And we've got some folks around here who believe some seriously crazy shit. In fact, they're the ones *most* likely to get on the evening/global news.

And this in a culture where the degree of control of information is vastly more restrictive than it is here. I'd say most North Koreans don't have a fucking chance to make an informed decision as to the validity of their tears.

[glatt]

I'm probably insensitive to think this, but that video was hilarious. Much of it looked fake, but a lot of them were really crying. Which is nuts!

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

Much of it looked fake, but a lot of them were really crying.

Those truly in morning were the power brokers who used Kim as their front man. Those are the greater wacko extremists. Without Kim and other more moderates to hold them back, then now is a very dangerous time. Doubtful that Kim Jung Il's 28 year old kid has the balls or experience to keep those wackos in line.

Wacko extremists (both here and there) will do almost anything to create war. Since war creates bogeymen that only entrench extremist power. Making the north an undefined entity. Especially when George Jr told North Korea that we would unilaterally attack them - without provocation - the 'axis of evil' speech.

[kerosene]

Originally Posted by classicman

I wonder if and how much they were paid to cry for a man who murdered millions.

Paid the absence of a beating, maybe?

[classicman]

zactly Kero.

[xoxoxoBruce]

These people were brainwashed their whole lives, with Kim and his father being the source of everything they needed to exist. The Sun literally rose each day from Kim's asshole. They have no internet or radio contact with the world, nothing to dispute it was he alone that kept the hostile world from killing them and everyone they know. I'm sure they are worried what will become of them now... will Jr be able to provide for and protect them? No wonder they're wailing.

[footfootfoot]

Crocodile tears.

Guinness book record for the largest demonstration of Crocodile Tears.

[ZenGum]

Maybe they're golf fans. I mean KJI once made 11 aces in a single round. We'll never see his like again.

[infinite monkey]

He probably took a lot of murrigans.

[regular.joe]

With his girl friend Irene who had one leg shorter then the other.

[Undertoad]

and again for the funeral procession

Originally Posted by NYTimes

Soldiers appeared to lead the outpouring of grief. They beat their chests in tears, footage broadcast on state television showed. They flailed their hands, stomped their feet and shouted “Father, Father,” as the limousine carrying a gigantic portrait of a smiling Kim Jong-il on the roof crawled past the crowds, followed by the hearse bearing his coffin draped with a red flag. A phalanx of soldiers carrying various party and military flags followed.

In one scene, soldiers rushed to keep mourners from spilling onto the road. But even among the crowds, the intensity of grief — thus loyalty to the regime — seemed to vary; those standing farther from the road seemed less emotional.
...
The funeral, and the mourning, appeared to have been meticulously choreographed by the government to strengthen the cult of personality underpinning the Kim family’s rule. State television and radio announcers exhorted North Koreans to uphold the family with their lives. They even attributed the heavy snow fall ahead of the funeral to the “heaven’s grief” over Kim Jong-il’s death.

[Sundae]

People mourn celebrities who had far less actual input in their daily lives.

And I have heard much sillier things than this after someone has died.

They even attributed the heavy snow fall ahead of the funeral to the “heaven’s grief” over Kim Jong-il’s death.

[Griff]

What kind of hearse was that?

[Elspode]

And, in other news, Kim Jong Il is still dead...