Behold!

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Its in their DNA.

[size=14pt]Crying by numbers at Kim's state funeral[/size]
TERRY MCCARTHY in Seoul
Wednesday, 20 July [size=14pt]1994[/size]

TENS of thousands of North Koreans lined the streets of Pyongyang yesterday to watch the funeral cortege of President Kim Il Sung pass by in a meticulously orchestrated display of emotion and synchronised weeping. Meanwhile his 52-year-old son, Kim Jong Il, was apparently preparing to sweep into power on this pan-national wave of grief, as every utterance of sorrow at the father's passing was accompanied by pledges to follow his son henceforth.
Kim Il Sung died on 8 July, of a heart attack, after leading North Korea down an isolationist and internally repressive path for 46 years of juche, self-reliance socialism. Although he chose his son as his successor 20 years ago, doubts over Kim Jong Il's grip on power persist and the funeral ceremonies appear carefully designed to enhance his image as the inheritor of his father's legacy.

Yesterday Kim Jong Il bowed repeatedly in front of his father's coffin, before it was driven on the back of a black limousine through the main streets of Pyongyang. It was preceded by an enormous portrait of the dead man mounted on another car and an arrow-like formation of several dozen motorbikes. A fleet of black Mercedes followed the cortege, hiding the most privileged mourners.

'Since rising as the son of the revolution, for 80 years he gave everything he had, he gave his life - is it true that the great heart stopped beating?' said one mourner to a North Korean television reporter. 'Dear Great Leader, you are leaving us, but with all our hearts we will heed Kim Jong Il's leadership,' said another.

'I just don't want to believe it . . . he is beside us, he will live forever,' said a young woman, whose sorrow forced her interviewer to dab tears away from his eyes with the ubiquitous white handkerchief that every citizen of Pyongyang seemed to be carrying yesterday.

Were the outpourings of grief entirely staged? 'Maybe some kind of organisation took place,' said Alexander Valiev, the Pyongyang correspondent for the Russian Tass news agency, by telephone. 'I saw many men in suits controlling order on the streets.' The crowds were uncannily orderly: the front row along every street had its toes aligned to the kerb and nobody pushed forward or jostled out of place. Even nature was not immune: 'Flowers in full bloom in busy streets of the capital have lost their fragrance,' reported the official North Korean news agency, KCNA.

It was almost crying by numbers, as the crowds broke into simultaneous mourning at the appearance of television cameras. Earlier North Korean television showed pictures of a family mourning at home, with large amounts of food conspicuously laid on a table in front of Kim Il Sung's picture, and footage of farmers mourning beside a field of ripening maize. Both sequences seemed designed to discredit stories of increasing food shortages in the country, while the mourners repeated the slogan of 'turning their sorrow into strength' to improve productivity under the new leader, Kim Jong Il.

But at the same time the sheer size of the crowds, the sound of the solemn dirges, the loss of a leader who, for better or worse, ruled over his people for half a century, and the uncertainty about the future was infectious. If some of the sloganeering mouthed by selected mourners for broadcast sounded wooden, many people none the less must have felt moved by the spectacle, and perhaps even distressed that their dedication to the 'great leader' for so many years had still not left them all with meat to eat, tiled roofs for their houses and heating inside - a failure Kim Il Sung himself admitted in his last New Year's speech this year. North Koreans, after all, have a lot to be sorry about.

'No you must not go that way' was a poem sent to the Rodong Sinmun newspaper in Pyongyang by a reader. But yesterday Kim Il Sung went that way. And for 22 million North Koreans, as the centre of their tightly sealed society fell through, there was little else to do but look miserable.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/crying-by-numbers-at-kims-state-funeral-1415015.html

What is the diffrence between winston churchill and kim jong il? Media and brainwashing. Remeber winston churcill starved 15million indians to death yet the british refer to him as a hero

lakhadimar:

What is the diffrence between winston churchill and kim jong il? Media and brainwashing. Remeber winston churcill starved 15million indians to death yet the british refer to him as a hero

Who cares about Winston Churchill?

What have the various Kims done for North Korea, aside from introduce mass hunger and starvation in the midst of rockets and nuclear weapons?
Roughly half of Pyongyangs population of approx 2 million consists of communist party members (the reason they can get an abundant supply of "tears" in the city); in the meantime, the communist party has a membership of about 2 million. Do the math, its a phucked country.

I would love to see pictures of people crying outside Pyongyang, I can bet you, there are none.

@beaf You careless about churchill, i also careless about the N/koreans & kim jong il. But lets bring it back home, do u know the number of Nigerians starving & crying as a result of the hardship meted at them due to Gej's incompetence? Are you aware of the ridiculous amount Gej budgeted for personal feeding for the coming year, while millions of Nigerian children sleep with an empty stomach, are you aware that some Nigerians are crossing the border to nearby equitoral guinea so as to get fuel at cheaper price while Gej is still bent on removing the subsidy on fuel.

lakhadimar:

@beaf You careless about churchill, i also careless about the N/koreans & kim jong il. But lets bring it back home, do u know the number of Nigerians starving & crying as a result of the hardship meted at them due to Gej's incompetence? Are you aware of the ridiculous amount Gej budgeted for personal feeding for the coming year, while millions of Nigerian children sleep with an empty stomach, are you aware that some Nigerians are crossing the border to nearby equitoral guinea so as to get fuel at cheaper price while Gej is still bent on removing the subsidy on fuel.

Wetin konsain North Korea and GEJ? Why can't Nigerians have a conversation without rambling?
Maybe its the situation in your village thats making North Koreans so damn good at letting of copious jets of crocodile tears. No?

Critical thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
Rationality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality

Now can we keep to topic? Abi you wan join the Korean comedy?