Video: The Weeping North Koreans; Update: New Leader May Be More Psycho Than Dad, Says U.S. Intel -- Hot Air
Don’t just sample the clip for 10 seconds. Watch to the end and drink in the full spectacle of grown men, prostrate, screaming in grief at the death of their subjugator. I take it state media beamed this out to show the world how unlikely a North Korean Spring is; it might be their first honest moment. Count me in with Michael Totten and Dan Foster in thinking these histrionics are more genuine than we’d like to believe. After all, lesser cult leaders like Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite have asked and gotten more from their followers than this; surely a few tears were in order in Pyongyang upon learning that God is dead. The whole point of totalitarian conditioning is to draw this reaction without needing soldiers to stand just out of frame pointing rifles at the crowd. Go figure that it actually works on some people.
Totten, a regular visitor to authoritarian countries, wonders how many people it worked on:
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My Comment: Saddam Hussein's sons were rumored to be worse than him. Some of Gaddafi's sons were worse than him, prolonging the Libyan civil war longer than what it would have been. Assad took over from his father in Syria, and the bloodshed that is happening there right now would make his dad blush. So .... is North Korea's new leader may be more psycho than dad .... history would say yes.
As for the crying .... it pales in comparison to the stories that I heard from my dad when he described the day that Stalin died .... but that is always the case of a dictator who pushes and coerces a population into believing the cult of personality.
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