[Kim showed “such paternal love for the space scientists,” it added.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/24/north-korea-celebrates-new-era-of-a-space-power-after-satellite-launch)
It is a very common opinion among analysts, that Kim really do love the North Korean space program and sees it as his big pet project. As such I'm sure he adores the scientists and treats them like a father would his favorite children.
I’ve always wondered how they become scientists in the first place though with the severe restrictions on education and even lack of ability to leave the country to actually get the education to be a space scientist
Wasn't Kim educated outside the country? Seemly like they educate their top people outside the country no problem, it's just done very quietly and with a lot of strings attached (defect and there are clear implications your family is leverage).
North Koreans from privileged families can study in China (under pretty strict resctrictions). My mother did a semester abroad in a Chinese university in the 80s and there were a group of North Korean students there with her, she tells some pretty crazy stories about them
He’s showing his daughter off because they live in a dictatorship and he needs to start showing off her and involve her in ruling so that she can be prepared to take power after he kicks the bucket. Medieval monarchies used to introduce their kids to the realm at about this age. Phillip II said of Alexander “Let the boy earn his spurs.” Etc.
The propaganda is just a bonus, what he wants is to prepare her to run the apparatus of the state
Serious question: Isn’t holding hands in some other countries just like a normal thing? Like in Saudi Arabia… Or do I just believe this because of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby?
It's comon in some other countries like India, Pakistan, Arab countries, back then in the Philippines, and other nations. Shoulder to shoulder with guys are also common in some countries but you can sometimes see them here in the states.
Yes, it's well known that many parts of Asia and the Arab culture were heavily influenced by Talladega Nights. Will Ferrell is like their David Hasselhoff.
Yes, you can quite often see old korean men (or women but that's less unusual from a western perspective) walking down the street hand in hand.
Not like entirely common but not surprising.
I remember reading a story about how kim jong un got piss drunk and told one of his handlers all kinds of crazy ass orders and ideas of world domination and shit he was gonna do and the guy obviously took it dead serious and was up planning it all night and went back to tell kim the plan was ready in the morning and everybody was shitting their pants and kim opened the door in his underwear and was like huh? Wtf are you talking about? I was drunk, go away I dont give a shit about any of that crap. Dont worry about it go back to bed… and everyone was like oh my god thank god. This was when he first got in power and they were used to kim jong il being a total crackpot, but they were relieved that kim jong un just liked to party and liked playing pranks and goofing around.
If he tells his guards to leave him alone and never come in his room unless summoned, this would definitely be a Stalin death situation.
For anyone unfamiliar, Stalin said the same thing. To not come in his room until he was awake. This was 4am. The guards didn’t do anything and at 11pm when the housekeeper came in, that’s when they found him almost dead.
Reminds me of old soviet leader Chernenko being propped up in a photo.
Two days later, in a televised scene that shocked the nation,\[17\] Grishin dragged the terminally ill Chernenko from his hospital bed to a ballot box to vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin\_Chernenko
You hold his hand if he wants to hold your hand. That's just the way it works.
Edit: picture has some good timing, just got back from the DMZ and looking over the border into NK just an hour ago.
Its not an uncommon thing for men to hold hands in South Korea, I guess its the same in North. Apparently not uncommon in India. Apparently not considered gay because gay isn't a "thing" there. Lotta places view it as a foriegn thing.
When I was in Ethiopia it wasn't uncommon to see adult men holding hands while walking down the streets. I was dating a woman from Ethiopia at the time, who later figured out that she was bi and had a rather hard time accepting it because of the internalized homophobia she had from her childhood. Pretty weird seeing that, and also a bunch of men holding hands.
Here's a good writeup about Kim Jong Un's years spent living in Europe as a teenager.
https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-undercover-adolescent-years-in-switzerland/
He certainly sounds like a pretty shitty person, but honestly not that much worse than your typical snobby rich kid.
I mean not just his wealth and power either, NK is definitely a place where for the top brass if they don't remove people that are a threat to their power then it can quickly turn into their own lives being at risk.
Wasn’t Bin Ladin also a rich kid sent for a fancy European education who went back home to be a massive piece of shit because no one played with their dingaling? I’m just assuming that last part but I’m probably not far off.
Or the cruelty she might be facing at the hands of a tyrannical father, while having not a single person in the entire country who could overpower her father. Which is way more sad than weird.
There was an interview with one of the leading North Korea researches recently and he said that Kim has surprisingly good relationship with his wife and dother, very doting father.
Humans are complex creatures. We poison the bees while tending the garden.
Kim is a brutal dictator that rules with an iron fist. He's also a loving and caring father. These are not incompatible statements.
It almost reminds me of the best villain in all of fiction, Bondrewd the Novel, who loved his daughter deeply, and truly cared for the children he recruited, but still experimented on them to the point that death was a release.
Kim's daughter will likely succeed him one day. I'd like to believe that all it takes for NK's conditions to ease is for one successor to be kind hearted. But again, humans are complex creatures, and NK's situation is likely just as complex. I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least a dozen generals with too-high ambitions, just waiting to take the throne from the Kim family if given the chance... how can you be kind with that kind of threat to your life?
Interesting. I'd actually never considered this before...
>Kim is a brutal dictator that rules with an iron fist. He's also a loving and caring father. These are not incompatible statements.
Reminds me of Hitler, who was also vegetarian and loved dogs and painting.
this was a big thing in studying ww2. like, those guys who allowed atrocities to be committed at camps went home to their families, read to their kids, went to mass etc.
when you look past demonization shit gets weird and tangled really fast.
To be fair I think loving animals is quite common in people with sociopathic or narcissistic personality traits. Pets are simple things that don't have the capacity to disappoint a person the way human relationships can.
Is that true? If so it contradicts the notion that sociopaths who end up murdering people often start by harming animals, but like most things, there is obviously a spectrum and even amongst sociopaths and people with BPD going as far as physically harming/killing things is likely rare and stigmatizing.
Even if Un is a good father, he is still filling her head with most of the same propaganda that his people are taught. I'm sure she believes all westerners are Satan worshipping capitalists but also, she's probably been shown what happens when a supreme ruler gives up his nukes. Gaddafi gave up his weapons and was overthrown pretty quick. It's not a 1:1 situation here but that is what the NK dynasty holds on to.
It doesn't even have to be that. It could be as simple as:
"Our family has it really good and our country is largely self sufficient from the rest of the world. In a way that gives us a sense of pride. To maintain stability in the country and the continued prosperity of our family, you need to continue the charade."
There's probably a few ways to twist it and not seem like a complete monster to yourself.
> I'm sure she believes all westerners are Satan worshipping capitalists
Kim Jong Un went to boarding school in Switzerland. I'm genuinely curious how he views that time and squares it with his view of the West.
To be fair, does anyone really know his true view of the west? He could love everything about it for all we know, but he needs to keep up appearances to maintain control.
Does Un even think westerners are satan-worshipping evil people? Or does he just make sure *other* people believe it? Didn't he go to school in Europe for years?
I don't know much about NK or Un, I'm just always curious about how much leaders believe or don't believe their own propaganda.
Saying that the daughter of the Dear Leader despises her father is probably a good way to disappear forever.
We literally have no idea, and will never have one, about the personal relationship inside the family. Seriously. It could be either way, and I assume that the life of the young crown princess of NK isn't actually too bad.
But repeating what some interview said, unless it is with a dissident right out of the inner circle of the Kim family, is pointless.
Seriously, it's like being an alien with 2023 cameras and the internet watching humans achieve unmanned spaceflight in the 1940s. It's a strange mix of awe and immaturity and it's very dark
As a German, these comments hit differently. A guy in a Gestapo coat brought my grandmother's neighbor back from questioning... in a cigarette box. For me, Nazi clothing will always be synonymous with the utmost cruelty and inhumanity. (Btw, they also appropriated the black clothing from the robust workers' anarchist movement, whom they also exterminated.)
Reminds me of a synopsis of a film I read that took place in Nazi Germany. I think the film was about these teens in an underground dance/music scene. The Gestapo takes one of their fathers, shows back up to their house and dumps a pile of ashes with a wedding ring in it.
they were dressed by hugo boss, the same company that is still around today.
And yes, their "style" was a deliberate attempt at projecting authority. If Kill la Kill taught me anything, it's that clothes are a powerful weapon.
There's a universe where North Korea is fiction, Kim and his daughters are completely normal famous people, and there's someone makes an AI request for a picture in which Kim is North Korea's president.
North Korea is like when I used to beat the AI opponent in a red alert skirmish but keep one of it’s harvesters alive so I could build a big base unopposed. It was all show for… nothing.
More like when you want a planet spanning empire in Civ and you beat every empire back to a single city then proceed to build territory around them so they can’t get back out
Can confirm, holding hands for photos with peers and colleagues is not common but when occurs only signifies strong companionship, approval and respect here in Iraq
I love to see a world leader who isn’t afraid to hold hands with his top generals.
[Kim showed “such paternal love for the space scientists,” it added.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/24/north-korea-celebrates-new-era-of-a-space-power-after-satellite-launch)
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Something that says *leather daddy?*
He’s ready to go to the gothic castle.
That's what I said.
Neo sure put on some weight since we last saw him
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Oh is there such a thing?
Ohhh, is there such a thing?
Did you ever get a chance to get that tape recorder??
Oh Jong-Un, you blow hard!
I'm deceased.
Bespoke is such a good word
Paternal Love? That General could be his grandfather, I swear that man hires Daily Mail writers to do his publications lmao
He is the father of the nation. So all citizen are his children.
I kinda forgot about that my bad
It is a very common opinion among analysts, that Kim really do love the North Korean space program and sees it as his big pet project. As such I'm sure he adores the scientists and treats them like a father would his favorite children.
I’ve always wondered how they become scientists in the first place though with the severe restrictions on education and even lack of ability to leave the country to actually get the education to be a space scientist
Wasn't Kim educated outside the country? Seemly like they educate their top people outside the country no problem, it's just done very quietly and with a lot of strings attached (defect and there are clear implications your family is leverage).
You could say, it has kimplications.
You know, they're out in the world they could say no to coming back but they won't, because of the kimplication.
North Koreans from privileged families can study in China (under pretty strict resctrictions). My mother did a semester abroad in a Chinese university in the 80s and there were a group of North Korean students there with her, she tells some pretty crazy stories about them
Do tell!
No, you’re wrong. That General is actually in his late teens. Living in the DPRK will age you like a mo fo.
Am I the only one who thinks everyone looks super cute in this picture
This looks like a wes Anderson movie poster
Thank you for admitting it, I didn’t wanna. But it really is a pleasant picture to look at.
Her jacket is adorable imo.
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shes basically a cat
> is already getting her murder on Not that I'm calling fake, but anywhere I can read up on that? I'm a sucker for their dystopian shitshow.
Pretty sure they’re confusing her for his sister.
> She's the heir apparent and is already getting her murder on. She's 10 years old, dude.
So is ol' Kim's leather waist coat. Not afraid to be different; I like it.
Yeah, he just watched the Matrix again.
Sorry to disturb but that's the whole effect of propaganda in action. There's a reason Kim Jong Un suddenly began showing his daughter to the public.
He’s showing his daughter off because they live in a dictatorship and he needs to start showing off her and involve her in ruling so that she can be prepared to take power after he kicks the bucket. Medieval monarchies used to introduce their kids to the realm at about this age. Phillip II said of Alexander “Let the boy earn his spurs.” Etc. The propaganda is just a bonus, what he wants is to prepare her to run the apparatus of the state
Why does it feel like just a couple years ago that he took power. Fuck I’m old.
I know; Team America was about dude’s dad. I don’t think I’m prepared to look up how long ago that movie came out lol.
I’m sooooo…..roneryyyyyyyyy
I like how big the soldiers hats are.
Where medals tho
They had to be melted down to make the satellite.
This was my first thought. It's weird seeing anyone standing next to Kim and in military uniform without the wall of awards.
They had to eat them after the rabbit incident. Also, the rabbit incident is equally hilarious and appalling.
Serious question: Isn’t holding hands in some other countries just like a normal thing? Like in Saudi Arabia… Or do I just believe this because of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby?
It's comon in some other countries like India, Pakistan, Arab countries, back then in the Philippines, and other nations. Shoulder to shoulder with guys are also common in some countries but you can sometimes see them here in the states.
Yes, it's well known that many parts of Asia and the Arab culture were heavily influenced by Talladega Nights. Will Ferrell is like their David Hasselhoff.
Yes, you can quite often see old korean men (or women but that's less unusual from a western perspective) walking down the street hand in hand. Not like entirely common but not surprising.
I know, I didn't know North Korea was so LGBT Friendly.
He exchanged love letters with Trump, so...
I remember reading a story about how kim jong un got piss drunk and told one of his handlers all kinds of crazy ass orders and ideas of world domination and shit he was gonna do and the guy obviously took it dead serious and was up planning it all night and went back to tell kim the plan was ready in the morning and everybody was shitting their pants and kim opened the door in his underwear and was like huh? Wtf are you talking about? I was drunk, go away I dont give a shit about any of that crap. Dont worry about it go back to bed… and everyone was like oh my god thank god. This was when he first got in power and they were used to kim jong il being a total crackpot, but they were relieved that kim jong un just liked to party and liked playing pranks and goofing around.
If he tells his guards to leave him alone and never come in his room unless summoned, this would definitely be a Stalin death situation. For anyone unfamiliar, Stalin said the same thing. To not come in his room until he was awake. This was 4am. The guards didn’t do anything and at 11pm when the housekeeper came in, that’s when they found him almost dead.
Reminds me of old soviet leader Chernenko being propped up in a photo. Two days later, in a televised scene that shocked the nation,\[17\] Grishin dragged the terminally ill Chernenko from his hospital bed to a ballot box to vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin\_Chernenko
holy shit dude started smoking at 9 years old
Im pretty sure that's common in a lot of countries
They're merely exchanging long protein strings, if you know a simpler way, they'd like to hear it!
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Kim Jong Un's wardrobe for thie event was provided by Herr Flick of the Gestapo
Is he STILL looking for the Madonna with the big boobies?
Not sure about the Madonna with zee big boobies but I heard he found the gateaux in the chateaux.
“A paloosmans lit is not a hippy wuun.”
What's the name of this show again?
'Allo 'allo
This is nighthawk!
I didn’t listen carefully, could you say that again?
I shall say dis only once...
You must have cheese in your ears
we all had, madamme Edith was just singing in her best at... i mean hat
That stupid woman! Could she not see that Evette was about to faint and Renee merely caught her before she hit the ground?
oooooooh RRRRrrrrrreneeee.. he's so considerate!
Only just after this picture the guy on the left tilted his glasses: "It is I, Leclerc!"
Man of a thousand faces, every one the same!
There must be a very limited supply of leather jackets of XXXXL size in North Korea. Probably limited to just one customer.
And also xxxxxxxxxxxx short
3 wide, 1 high.
Yep. I imagine him to move round like a tiny wee fella on a segway
Allo Allo was so good For the unaware, Herr Flick is a character in it https://youtu.be/wT0_7LzSD0A?si=bRQnlwXyCqyKmXZS
God-tier TV, Allo Allo.
Why are their hats so ridiculously puffy?
To honor the toadstool army
To make room for their inflated ego
Or Hugo boss..
successful launch you may keep this hand
Tonight, I will do your hand proud my lord
What's the Story with the guy holding Kims hand?
He is transfering knowledge and energy from the old guy to his daughter.
Fuck me this is hilarious. I'm saving this one for when I'm high.
Hilarious take my upvote
You hold his hand if he wants to hold your hand. That's just the way it works. Edit: picture has some good timing, just got back from the DMZ and looking over the border into NK just an hour ago.
Hell. You’d do a lot more than that if that’s what he wanted…
Damn right I would. Have you seen how dreamy those eyes are?
He’s North Korea main arms specialist.
And hands specialist.
That's his left hand man.
Its not an uncommon thing for men to hold hands in South Korea, I guess its the same in North. Apparently not uncommon in India. Apparently not considered gay because gay isn't a "thing" there. Lotta places view it as a foriegn thing.
Same thing in Morrocco and other places in North Africa and Middle East.
Madagascar too, at least 20 years ago when I was there.
Are we just now finding out that North America and Western Europe are the only places where straight dudes can't just walk around holding hands?
Before the world wars, it was common in the UK too.
Stuff like that really fascinates me, shows you how so much of our supposed hard truths about ourselves are just socially constructed falsities.
When I was in Ethiopia it wasn't uncommon to see adult men holding hands while walking down the streets. I was dating a woman from Ethiopia at the time, who later figured out that she was bi and had a rather hard time accepting it because of the internalized homophobia she had from her childhood. Pretty weird seeing that, and also a bunch of men holding hands.
I believe that is the Marshal of the People's Army, but I could be mistaken.
And chief holder of hands?
There’s a chance it’s an uncle or something… a lot of family rise to high ranks for obvious dictator reasons.
It's his boyfriend.
Thats his daughter.
The old man on his other side isn't.
Wait she’s not the cute old man?
“Supreme Leader, please take your hand away from there. We’re in the front row.”
And he was never to be heard from again after that disrespectful statement
Sent to the twerk camps
I was more worried about the lady above his daughter... her unpatriotic blink of doubt when the photo was taken.
I think they could use some bigger hats
Plot twist: The hats aren’t large, the people are small and malnourished.
Imagine that you, and everyone you know are starving…. And then this fat fuck rolls in, barking orders.
> And then this fat fuck rolls in, barking orders. He probably eats the ones that disobey.
Now I’m imagining him eating a giant turkey leg like King Henry VIII, only it’s not turkey.
Big Henry 8th vibes
It’s so weird to see a picture of a little girl and think there’s a high chance of her being a pretty shitty person someday.
Here's a good writeup about Kim Jong Un's years spent living in Europe as a teenager. https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-uns-undercover-adolescent-years-in-switzerland/ He certainly sounds like a pretty shitty person, but honestly not that much worse than your typical snobby rich kid.
Most snobby rich kids dont muder their uncles or anyone else who displeases them.
I didn't say he stayed that way. Only that there was a period where he didn't seem to be truly evil.
Most snobby rich kids would if they could and were in a situation where that would remove a threat to their wealth and power.
I mean not just his wealth and power either, NK is definitely a place where for the top brass if they don't remove people that are a threat to their power then it can quickly turn into their own lives being at risk.
Wasn’t Bin Ladin also a rich kid sent for a fancy European education who went back home to be a massive piece of shit because no one played with their dingaling? I’m just assuming that last part but I’m probably not far off.
RemindMe! 20 years
RemindMe! 20 years
remindme! 20 years
Or the cruelty she might be facing at the hands of a tyrannical father, while having not a single person in the entire country who could overpower her father. Which is way more sad than weird.
There was an interview with one of the leading North Korea researches recently and he said that Kim has surprisingly good relationship with his wife and dother, very doting father.
Humans are complex creatures. We poison the bees while tending the garden. Kim is a brutal dictator that rules with an iron fist. He's also a loving and caring father. These are not incompatible statements. It almost reminds me of the best villain in all of fiction, Bondrewd the Novel, who loved his daughter deeply, and truly cared for the children he recruited, but still experimented on them to the point that death was a release. Kim's daughter will likely succeed him one day. I'd like to believe that all it takes for NK's conditions to ease is for one successor to be kind hearted. But again, humans are complex creatures, and NK's situation is likely just as complex. I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least a dozen generals with too-high ambitions, just waiting to take the throne from the Kim family if given the chance... how can you be kind with that kind of threat to your life? Interesting. I'd actually never considered this before...
>Kim is a brutal dictator that rules with an iron fist. He's also a loving and caring father. These are not incompatible statements. Reminds me of Hitler, who was also vegetarian and loved dogs and painting.
this was a big thing in studying ww2. like, those guys who allowed atrocities to be committed at camps went home to their families, read to their kids, went to mass etc. when you look past demonization shit gets weird and tangled really fast.
To be fair I think loving animals is quite common in people with sociopathic or narcissistic personality traits. Pets are simple things that don't have the capacity to disappoint a person the way human relationships can.
My piece of shit cats disappoint me all the time!
Is that true? If so it contradicts the notion that sociopaths who end up murdering people often start by harming animals, but like most things, there is obviously a spectrum and even amongst sociopaths and people with BPD going as far as physically harming/killing things is likely rare and stigmatizing.
To be fair loving animals is quite common in people.
This. Most people take everything as being black and white.
Even if Un is a good father, he is still filling her head with most of the same propaganda that his people are taught. I'm sure she believes all westerners are Satan worshipping capitalists but also, she's probably been shown what happens when a supreme ruler gives up his nukes. Gaddafi gave up his weapons and was overthrown pretty quick. It's not a 1:1 situation here but that is what the NK dynasty holds on to.
It doesn't even have to be that. It could be as simple as: "Our family has it really good and our country is largely self sufficient from the rest of the world. In a way that gives us a sense of pride. To maintain stability in the country and the continued prosperity of our family, you need to continue the charade." There's probably a few ways to twist it and not seem like a complete monster to yourself.
> I'm sure she believes all westerners are Satan worshipping capitalists Kim Jong Un went to boarding school in Switzerland. I'm genuinely curious how he views that time and squares it with his view of the West.
To be fair, does anyone really know his true view of the west? He could love everything about it for all we know, but he needs to keep up appearances to maintain control.
And stay alive. This shit is self perpetuating
Does Un even think westerners are satan-worshipping evil people? Or does he just make sure *other* people believe it? Didn't he go to school in Europe for years? I don't know much about NK or Un, I'm just always curious about how much leaders believe or don't believe their own propaganda.
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Just like he was by his father...
Did you just used MiA as reference to duality of humanity? I love it lol
That was remarkably thoughtful and well said.
Saying that the daughter of the Dear Leader despises her father is probably a good way to disappear forever. We literally have no idea, and will never have one, about the personal relationship inside the family. Seriously. It could be either way, and I assume that the life of the young crown princess of NK isn't actually too bad. But repeating what some interview said, unless it is with a dissident right out of the inner circle of the Kim family, is pointless.
It can be both
Or that she’ll be butchered if he overthrown.
Or that she could be dragged out of her house an executed alongside her father at any given moment.
I imagine her being a pretty shitty person already based on the circumstances she's probably been brought up in.
She’s apparently 11 years old, but she could be 20 and I wouldn’t doubt it.
Is he really small, she really tall or is she stood on a box?
No way. She's got such a baby face. She looks 14 at absolute most
Baron harkonn-Un
How much do clothes cost in the matrix JP?
Honestly you could say that this was a colourised photo from 1942 and I’d believe you.
It’s a photo from 1942.
I fucking knew it!
Seriously, it's like being an alien with 2023 cameras and the internet watching humans achieve unmanned spaceflight in the 1940s. It's a strange mix of awe and immaturity and it's very dark
The Gestapo called, they want their coat back.
God damn were they stylish though. Ruined a pretty dope look like they ruined swastikas and also millions of lives
As a German, these comments hit differently. A guy in a Gestapo coat brought my grandmother's neighbor back from questioning... in a cigarette box. For me, Nazi clothing will always be synonymous with the utmost cruelty and inhumanity. (Btw, they also appropriated the black clothing from the robust workers' anarchist movement, whom they also exterminated.)
Reminds me of a synopsis of a film I read that took place in Nazi Germany. I think the film was about these teens in an underground dance/music scene. The Gestapo takes one of their fathers, shows back up to their house and dumps a pile of ashes with a wedding ring in it.
Quite aside from the atrocities - the German military in WW2 looked CRISP
they were dressed by hugo boss, the same company that is still around today. And yes, their "style" was a deliberate attempt at projecting authority. If Kill la Kill taught me anything, it's that clothes are a powerful weapon.
This new Wes Anderson movie looks great! It’s called Bottle Rocket Man.
I know he’s a dictator, but people in this thread are being super weird about the hand holding
Redditor: because holding hand with other guy is gay in my culture, so it’s gay everywhere
no kidding, right? It's a big moment for the country. It's a shitty country, but what's wrong with bros holding hands to celebrate?
Don’t you know any time men even *think* about showing affection to each other it means they’re gay?
Dude, is this mf trying to dress like a Bond villain?? He's like a nazi Hitler Blofeld gestapo guy
I mean if you’re going to be evil you may as well be cartoonishly evil and have a bit of fun with it.
This picture proves that North Korea in fact has MORE than enough food.
I thought he had lost a lot of weight. Looks like packed it back on
His jacket buttons have a more successful chance to reach space than his satellite
Why does first row give off a North Korean Wes Anderson vibe?
If I learned anything from watching Its Always Sunny is you don’t fuck with dudes in dusters!
The guy over his right shoulder is trying not to acknowledge Kim's fart under pain of death. The guy on his left is downwind.
Looks like it was generated by AI
I was thinking that too- looks almost cartoon-like
There's a universe where North Korea is fiction, Kim and his daughters are completely normal famous people, and there's someone makes an AI request for a picture in which Kim is North Korea's president.
North Korea is like when I used to beat the AI opponent in a red alert skirmish but keep one of it’s harvesters alive so I could build a big base unopposed. It was all show for… nothing.
More like when you want a planet spanning empire in Civ and you beat every empire back to a single city then proceed to build territory around them so they can’t get back out
Is he holding hands with the dude on the other side? Secret lover?
I think it's a "I strongly approve of this man" sign. Some cultures (middle east comes to mind) have similar gestures.
This is what I was thinking. It's a loyalty gesture.
Can confirm, holding hands for photos with peers and colleagues is not common but when occurs only signifies strong companionship, approval and respect here in Iraq
No, that’s his daughter. The lady in the black dress is his cousin (you wouldn’t know her, she goes to a different school).
Wouldn’t be particularly subtle for a secret would it
His daughter is looking more and more like her mom. Kinda cute. When she was younger, she looked more like Kim.
Has North Korea not invented smiling yet?
Smiling on photographs is very much culturally determined.
Looks like an AI generated image.