Watch the Unnerving Mass Hysteria of 'Mourning' North Koreans
Here's a clip of North Koreans of all ages, openly and hysterically weeping in the streets over the death of Kim Jong-Il, broadcast on the same state media whose anchor broke down in tears while she read the news of the dictator's death. Seems like a healthy place, North Korea!
Obviously: who knows how "authentic" this footage is—the show of mourning could be entirely staged, or done for fear of reprisal, or maybe the cameraman stumbled across the only Vaclav Havel fans in all of North Korea—but there's no real explanation for it that makes the country not seem like the unbelievably fucked-up starving totalitarian nightmare it is.
Here's the sobbing news anchor:
