Jet Bin Fever 
Never a clip more worthy of a "what hell sounds like" tag.
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Scrotum H. Vainglorious
Oh poop on a stick I think I just submitted this one in the hopper.
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Oscar Wildcat
Afterwords, they had a nice reception with a grass and twig "all you can eat" buffet.
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Dinkin Flicka
Translation: "AGGH I'm Starving To Death-- what? dear leader is dead?"
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memedumpster
I'm glad there's one less god in the world.
Now I wish we Jehovah would die so we could watch Christianity do this.
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memedumpster If his kid is smart, he'll dress up like Elvis and skydive in shouting "I'm back, baby!"
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Anaxagoras
Who will crush our wills and oppress our spirits now???
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Oscar Wildcat Hey, Sarah Palin has been out of work for awhile, she's always looking for a foot in the door. Do they have tryouts or auditions?
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CIWB
God, it sounds so fake. I wonder if there's a general consensus on how many North Koreans actually buy into the state cult and how many play along so as to not get shot. Is an answer to that question even possible given the lack of access to ordinary people by the media?
The initial news coverage of individual North Koreans crying in the streets looked even more fake. Crying hysterically seems like a good way to avoid answering questions from someone with a camera about how sad you feel that the Great Leader is dead.
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sosage
Tens of people weeping for this lunatic. I wonder how the slaves in Syberia are handling the news.
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Cyberblah Nice rant and all, but despite the unfortunate spelling Sosage is not pulling that out of his ass:
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-part-1
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deadpan
Needs ACTING! tag.
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jangbones also, crygasm tag, just like dear old dad
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Albuquerque Halsey
AHH BLOO BLOO BLOOO
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Gojira1000
DPRK, don't ever change.
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Burnov
IRL Bawww thread.
There, I said it.
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FreeOJ
The west will surely pay for inventing heart attacks
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Rodents of Unusual Size
They're all faking, and I laughed hysterically.
Eagerly awaiting for this to be spliced into the Jack and Jill trailer.
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takewithfood
Everybody grieves in their own way. Except in North Korea.
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Toenails
Jesus, I don't want to be there when these folks discover the internet.
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Toenails P.S. takewithfood's comment is fucking hilarious.
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Unmerciful Crushing Force
All those saying that these guys are faking it need to read The Cleanest Race by B.R. Myers and realize just how convinced the lot of these people, especially in Pyongyang, are or, at the very least, how they manage to forgive their people's own shortcomings.
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misterbuns
These poor people aren't even allowed to be honest about their misery.
Five stars!
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Evilhead
0:58 "Who will drink all of the Hennessy!!?? Our country is in ruin!"
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crojo
1:05 - even the Starfleet cadets are overwhelmed with grief.
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gmol
I certainly do sense that at least part of the display of emotion is a sort of conditioned response that doesn't really come from the same vat of grief used for people that are close to you; a lot like what you see at televangelist event...
But the exact same thing happens in America as well (outside of televangelist events). Kids cried when Kennedy was shot (for the sake of evidence, look at some letters here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/november/22/newsid_3211 000/3211055.stm).
Is this really any different?
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William Topaz McGonagall Yes, it's completely fucking different. One is a kid crying because someone they admired is dead. The other is a ritualized display of compulsory grief, a horrifying demonstration of how utterly insane cults of personality are, and proof that the stain Kim Jong-Il left on North Korea will remain for years to come.
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gmol In both cases I think it's an image that they admired. Neither kid had any idea as to what their leader's policies were (and what effects they had, read: Vietnam) or how great a husband either was.
I mean, just about any leader has some sort of personality cult around him (I think it would be hard to argue that JFK didn't have 'charisma').
Yeah, it's probably a lot better living in America, but I don't know how you could argue that children crying over dead leaders (whom they've never even seen in person) is anything other than ritualized displays of compulsory grief. Sure, it looks pretty exaggerated from the video, but the principle isn't really different.
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