Shock Vid Shows North Koreans in ‘Mass Mourning’
- Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:28am by
Billy Hallowell
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Last night, news spread around the globe that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is dead. The “Supreme Leader,” who has ruled for years with fierce brutality, passed away this weekend from heart failure.
Following the leader’s death, North Koreans participated in a mass mourning of sorts, according to state-run news. In fact, a startling video was released by North Korean media showcasing the intense emotional pain that citizens have purportedly been experiencing in Pyongyang.
Here’s the footage:
Considering the organization and intensity seen in the video and the brutal nature of North Korea’s government, it’s natural to wonder how sincere these lamentations are. Are they being forced? Was this video staged? These are legitimate questions.
Then again, the blind and excessive devotion to Jong-il was documented by journalist Lisa Ling when she made a rare trip into North Korea back in 2009. A National Geographic special hosted by Ling and featuring footage from inside the secretive country corroborates the intense love many felt for the leader. As Ling proclaims in the introduction to the fascinating special, Jong-il ruled as a “god king.”
Watch the documentary, below:
(H/T: io9)



















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djmaine
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:59ama lot of dry eyes and hiding of faces. Staged.
Report Post »they have to play ball or else be sent to the re-education camps in the hills of which you never graduate.
Scary what giving government too much power can do to the masses.
Think about this the next time you pull the lever.
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:09am.
Report Post »Look’s just like the same Stupid Uneducated Mass that follows Obama & the Democrates…..
paperpushermj
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:12amYou’re right. They have no idea who the Camera people are, so simple survival tells them as they look around them to show the proper amount of Morning.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:28amI can honestly say that I feel bad for the ‘ol *dear leader*. If there is anyone who is experiencing what it is like to burn in hell, it’s most likely him. May God have mercy on his soul.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:29amThese leaders should be taken out without a big deal as in the middle east conflict that took so many of our military.
Report Post »people should not suffer the way people in NK do, esp the children.
We may not be the world’s police, but we are all on this planet together and the most vulnerable should be protected.
Instead we have leaders like obama going on $4mil vacations..
V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:42amNeocons AND liberals are destroying our country.
Neocons ARE liberals.
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:45amHey – some folks cry when they are happy! If my leader had starved me and died, I would cry tears of joy also.
Report Post »singleparent
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:47amWho care‘s what happen’s over there none of our business untill the people really need help to take there country back untill then let them be….how about we quit worry‘ing and dictate’ing what goes on in other country’s and mind our own damn business… we cant even take care of our own country and people give a **** about this amaze’ing….if we could put as much effort into are own country as we do all the other‘s we would’nt have a problem….WHO CARE’S……
Report Post »mikemcdon321
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:53amThought that myself after seeing the video this morning.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:55amLiberal/Marxist propaganda works “wonders”…
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:57am@SpankDaMonkey
“Look’s just like the same Stupid Uneducated Mass that follows Obama & the Democrates…..”
Really?? Look, not to be overly critical because I probably agree with your opinions but please do us all a favor and don’t call anyone a “stupid, uneducated mass” if you don’t even know the rules of pluralizing words, capitalization, or punctuation (like when and how to use apostrophies or commas, or that there are only three periods in an elipsis.)
Most of that is third grade stuff.
Your post should have read: “Looks just like the same stupid, uneducated mass that follows Obama & the Democrats…”
By God, please don‘t show your own ignorance while you’re calling someone else a moron. That doesn’t help any of us.
Report Post »CleanUpAisle2013
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:01amMany reactions appear faked with tears noticeably absent. Yet, in their hearts most know or at least expect that conditions will only get worse. Just as Saddam Hussein and sons, Uday and Qusay, were weapons of mass destruction the late Kim Jong Il and his spawns of Satan strike fear in all who live in this freezing land mass of wretched poverty and daily starvation. Our troops in the South are on high alert so let’s keep them in our thoughts. A special “Cho shim hae!” to my fellow Skivvy-Niners in Osan.
Report Post »det45
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:32amYou all know why these people are crying right? The reason why they are crying is because they are scared for their lives! The Son is worse than his father! If they don’t cry over the death of his father they will be excuted……I’m not kidding here, they are scared to death. By the way, the old pot belly father is roasting in hell as we speak……Every dog has its day and pay back is a bitch.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:43amI do not understand the mentatlity that keeps a person from leaving the country, eg N.Korea.
The people of N. Korea are treated as inferior humanbeings…
the “third” son that is said to be taking over…he has been out in the world. I sincerely hope he will change things in NK for the better, and be pro humanity
Bluefish49
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 12:17pmI to could fake grief it I had an AK pointed at me.
Report Post »JohnnyinthePedros
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 12:30pmWhen enough of your friends and family simply disappear for minor infractions, you know what you have to do when the cameras are rolling and the uniforms are around. Gotta love that Marxism.
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 12:59pmStanding in line and crying. Either this is fake or they know the son is going to be worse.
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:07pmThat is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
Either Fake or they know the son will be worse!
Some how this reminds me of the OWS people.
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:33pmPropaganda wins whether it is for a worthless human like Kim or a worthless foreigner like Hussein OBambi
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:44pmGet over it.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:45pmI hope he took ice water.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:48pmOne down, Soros to go.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:06pmDon’t let yourself be fooled by media tricks like this. These people may be concubines or familes of concubines that may be buried alive with the little fat pig. Or they may be servants with the same fate. They may be people who had priveleges (such as decent food) given them by the pot bellied pig and now their priveleges will be lost. These creepy people only tell us what they want and these pictures are typical of sensationalism media showing us something other than truth. Passing anything from NK off as truth is a lie.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:11pmsingleparent – maybe we should care because the dead man was a crazy man with nuclear capabilities, and now we don’t know what will happen with those nukes. What if his son figures he has to use them to prove his worth?
The USA ought to be interested in countries that can start up a nuclear war.
Report Post »Better Dead Than Red
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:52pmClearly staged reactions- only out of fear, not grief.
These poor people do not have freedom of their own emotions.. The government does.
Report Post »Even after death, Kim Jong Il still controls them.
AmericanSince1619
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:56pmDon’t see any of the poor that he starved to feed the military and his cronies wailing in grief.
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:59pmMass Stockhom Syndrome.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:45pm@ Tunablue:
Report Post »If that’s “Mass Stockholm Syndrome”, then I have a masters degree in psychology to present to you (through the mail, of course sent C.O.D.).
teamarcheson
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:03pmThese North Korean people have been living a a real hell because the Democrats did not want to win the Korean War and free all of those people trapped North of the 38 parallel. The North Korean people do not even have electricity and live in hunger all of this because the Democrats wanted to end the war they started.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:09amstrange. the people “crying”..look fake.
Report Post »CorePatriot
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:58amBasically what the Morning Joe round table will be acting like when Obama is voted out!
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:05amThese people aren’t faking it. They remind me of cult followers though… will do anything they are told. Classic Obama-follower mentality here.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:27amI was thinking that it looks more like HUNGER pains….
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:41amFootage taken from the Bill Clinton school of “turning it on for the camera”. You’ll be glad to know, they all graduated!!!
Report Post »WSGAC
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:42amActually, these folks were just told that it was all just a silly holiday joke…that their leader Kim Jong was alive and well and would be rounding up anyone who was initially celebrating his death. Sucks to be them!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:52amSimilar to what Chrissy Matthews will be doing in December 2012.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:20amGetting a crowd to weep and spasm for the very man who starved and brutalized them – a testament to the power of Media in bed with Government.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 3:18pm@Corepatriot,
True, but on that day, they will be known as the “MOURNING JOE CROWD”
Report Post »Better Dead Than Red
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:57pmSpock,
This is not real. These ppl are definitely faking this. Would we ever see Brits mourn over the queen like this? What about Saddam or Quaddafi? Did we ever record the Nazis doing any of this after Hitler committed suicide? (I don’t mean this as a comparison, I’m more so speaking in terms of the idea of a “leader” or “ruler” and “country”)
Look at their body language.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:57amAnother one bites the dust. Oh I guess his son will just open up this country & they will have a Korean Spring. That will be wonderful, thank you obama.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:14amThe Chinese do not want… Koreans in China… nor… a United Korea on their Boarder! So, what options are left to the North Koreans?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:13amReally ? What a creepy video….. This is what Chris “ the Douchebag” Matthews will be doing on election night when his leg is tingleing cuz his Depends adult diaper is leaking down his Marxist leg !!!
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:37amlarge groups of people don’t mourn like that… they have to do that.
Report Post »goldmind
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:56amI’d say this is pretty much representative of the snivelers we have here in America. Looks a Lib Fest.
Report Post »Insight, into how easily the masses can be regulated, and trained. Now go buy you lattes and fondle your Ipads.
GodsDotr
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:56amIn communist countries, the level of mourning is dictated by the government and one’s station in the government. Needless to say, Kim Jong-il’s death requires much public mourning for one to remain in good graces with the government.
Report Post »ConservativeCharlie
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:59amYeah those people are brainwashed from the time they are born. Thats what Iowa will look like if Gingrich wins in Iowa. Gingrich is such a bad candidate that this guy was able to be water boarded and still wouldnt say Gingrich was a conservative http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Pv1KQGNU0
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:05amFear & Indoctrination… works!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:44amA collective ideology can only create collective slavery.
Report Post »gpk
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:55amGripes the only thing missing is Margaret Hamilton………
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:53amYeah. I’d cry too if someone held a gun to my head and said “Cry!”
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:51amProb those who were and are part of his regime…maybe they are gonna lose their positions…but seriously, no one has seen such a thing before? Culture is different, eh?
What we see as different is prob acceptable to them.
Now get worried about his bloody son…he is much worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:49amMan, that was weird
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:55amLMFAO , man I was so startled .. I swear, if SNL doesn’t do a skit on THIS, they are missing some screws.. This was funny as all hell..
Report Post »insideTRAITOR
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:39amlol
Report Post »DirtyDeeds
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:47amThis is not good on two accounts. One, that they are seriously mourning a brutal dictator’s death or two, they are all crying because of how much worse his successor is.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:45amMust be hard when a “god” dies.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:58amWhere are they going to get their Food, now — Oh, yah… South Korea!
Report Post »Mountain Dew
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:45amEver seen the movie 1984? Remeber the opening scene where the audience en mass portrayed each emotion on que? Creepy.
Report Post »Christhefarmer
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:46amKim Jong Ill is dead at the age of 69, actresses all over Japan are letting at a sigh of relief that they will no longer be kidnapped to star in his crappy movies. Experts say to expect a sharp drop in the price of cognac and porn dvds.
Report Post »Christhefarmer
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:54amTo early in the morning to think of the proper word for it but at the memorial to Kim’s father, (like a museum), it’s peoples job to tell the story Kim Jung II (the dad). Their job goal is to make people cry within two minutes or something, not sure what happens to them if they cant make everyone cry in time. On a side note looks like easy pickings for the men of North Korea tonight!!!!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:37am@Mountain Dew
Yes, Creepy……..and Sheepy
Report Post »BooYah
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:44amThanks President Obama, You killed another ruthless terrorist, Can’t wait for you news conference to take credit for this.
Report Post »nomolibs
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:44amThese people are actually isolated they don‘t trade with anyone they can’t talk to anyone they can’t leave. They are brainwashed into thinking there government is never wrong, and nothing there government brings about pain andd death……. sounds familiar
Report Post »piper60
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:42amWe love our dictator, oh yes we do. we need a fuhrer to kick us every now and then, its true. when he’s away from us, we’re black and blue. Dear Leader we loved YOU1
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:41amBrainwashed zombies. How one crazed leader could destroy an entire nation is beyond me.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:48amReally? Look around you and that is exactly what is going on in the good ole U S of A!! All bow to ‘our dear leader from Chicago’………….
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:51amIt’s not 2012 yet. Give it time…..
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:00amNO Indonesia, er.. Kenya, I mean Hawaii….Yea Hawaii.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:40amI have to wonder how much of this is staged, and how much is real as they have not known any other leader for most of their life other than the now dead dictator or his father. For some reason I sense a storm is getting ready to be unleashed, and it will head southward toward Seoul.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:50amOr perhaps the footage was taken of mourners from Kim Johg Il’s last human slaughter. If this is staged, hopefully the people return to their homes and party, stopping only to figure out how to depose the ‘son of the devil’.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:14amStockholm Syndrome
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:17amGrandmaof5 — good point I did not consider that.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:46amgood point Snow…it looked like at least one army private was looking for that next stripe….
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:11amMost of these mourners were young people….I would say brainwashed for sure……it is a “shocking” video!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:10pmSnowleopard, if the North Korean military actually attacked South Korea, it would be a last half-gasp offensive. The N.K. military has mostly Vietnam era aircraft and armor and their troops are starving ALMOST as much as the civilian population. N.K. fighter aircraft are dragged to the runway by oxen and fueled just enough to take-off and circle their airfield a couple times before having to land, and that’s N.K. stick-time for once, maybe twice a year.
Report Post »The only way the N.K.’s will win a conflict is by sheer, overwhelming numbers.
BooYah
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:40amReminds me of Obama supporters
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:39amOf course they are mourning because they know the brutality is about to get 10 folds worse with Kim Jong Un.
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:39amGoes to point out the sick minds of those N. Koreans! Yes, they should be shouting for joy in the street, but, more than likely they are afraid to because of his son who takes over?
Report Post »blamelessace5
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 4:51pmIts funny how theyre crying in formation !!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:14pmAnd anyone in North Korea who shouts for joy get a bullet in the back of the head and dumped into a mass grave.
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:39amWhat do expect to see on state run news? It’s the Korean version of FOX
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:44amOh, how cute, you tried to make a funny! Bless your little heart, buckaroo…..
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:44amOk, so you’re saying that Fox news is sympathetic to our government and tows the line for Obama?
Seriously, wtf? I know you wanted to be witty, but it makes no sense even within a leftist framework.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:52amActually this is the result of your left wing type of thinking and is much more indicative of MSNBC then anything else. There is a very good reason that Fox news is a larger audience then all of the other cable news programs combined and the reason left wing radicals hate it so much, as demonstrated by people like you who attack it every chance you get.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:53amExpect to see dour faces and quivering lips on ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN.
Report Post »Not so much on FOX.
G.E.R
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:41amFor those who need a explainati. This is a quote from Former Fox News producer Charlie Reina, “The roots of Fox News Channel’s day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, addressing what stories will be covered and, often, suggesting how they should be covered. To the newsroom personnel responsible for the channel’s daytime programming, The Memo is the Bible. If, on any given day, you notice that the Fox anchors seem to be trying to drive a particular point home, you can bet The Memo is behind it.”
Journalism 101 by Rich Tucker, CNSNews.com, November 07, 2003
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:03amHi G.E.R., thanks for the “explainati”.
All news outlets, newspapers, radio, television, have memos that direct content. Do you think that folks at those places wander around aimlessly until something happens?
You were told to hate Fox, so you dutifully hate Fox, we get it. Seriously, we get it dude. You don’t know why you hate Fox of course, not actually watching it yourself, but you are firm in your convictions that have been taught to you by others who want you to feel special. We all understand.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:07amI can‘t help but note that you don’t really say a lot about the actual story here either. Fling poo and run, how mature big guy.
Here’s something to noodle though: these people live in a nation that follows the precepts of Leftism down to the letter, with every “I” dotted and every “T” crossed. This is your Nirvana, the thing your superiors tell you to strive for. This has to be a sad day for the Left I’d imagine. My condolences. :)
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:07amTrue that Fox news has joined all other news outlets to worship dear leader who many times has been refered to as a “GOD” by his worshipers such as yourself GER. You don’t get anymore state controlled than atheists running the media calling a president God. Just recently we have witnessed many saying he should be “President for life”. No bias there. I guess it makes sense seeing all that he has done for his worshipers. Just like Kim Jong IL.
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:43am@Ghost
There’s actually nothing to say about the story. The man is dead…so what. In no way shape or form does his death have an impact on my life. And frankly I really don’t care.
@Neofan
There are these things called books and inside them there are facts about all sorts of things. If you take the time to open one on Asian history. You will be able to read about how asians for almost 5,000 years have referred to their emperors and leaders in some divine way.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:49am@G.E.R
If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t have browsed the article in the first place, and then bothered to post. If you really don’t care, then what’s your purpose here; to belittle? To mock? Is that it, that’s how you choose to spend your day is it?
And the article isn’t about him “just being dead”, it’s about the mind numbed robotic cult of personality “grieving”. Personally I find it a fascinating glimpse into the rarified ideal world of the Left. What a horror story.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:10am@GER
Report Post »Child, please.
G.E.R
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:07pm@Ghost
WOW you’re quite the pseudo intellectual. I‘m curious as to how much time you spend in front of the mirror trying to convince yourself of the delusion that you’re all that
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:37amYah… like Participation… is OPTIONAL!
Report Post »owdi
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:35amIf those demonstrations of sympathy are for real then the actors and actresses here in the US and abroad should be aware because they are good. Oh wait, I forgot to mention that others dont need a gun pointed at their head to show emotion. Rot in hell you little excuse for a human being.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:33amWow, looks just like PMSNBC……
Report Post »itsmyfirstday
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:32amLooks like tears of joy to me…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:38amThey will be when those poor people finally get some food.
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