North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il

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I grabbed this footage from DPRK state media.

More info here:

- Fascinating article about North Korea's theatrical public mourning, from the New Yorker: "Grief took on a competitive quality. Who could weep the loudest?" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs...

- The kind of public display in this video is not rare in North Korea. Here's another example of mass hysteria / outpouring of grief after the death of Kim Jong Il's father Kim Il Sung, in 1994 http://youtu.be/NrvIM1ENcbA

- Two interesting images after Kim Jong Il's death, in Pyongyang http://i.imgur.com/dazMr.jpg ... and a Korean immigrant in Los Angeles, upon hearing the news http://i.imgur.com/gmOZs.jpg

- Here's the last distributed photo of Kim Jong Il before his death... riding a supermarket escalator http://i.imgur.com/M44Zq.jpg

- A great gallery of photos "Inside North Korea" by David Guttenfelder http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/20...

- Iconic image of Kim Jong Il with his son Kim Jong Un, from October 2010 http://i.imgur.com/ytXxV.jpg This was a World Press Photo award winner, taken by Vincent Yu.


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[Omar Ornelas]

I have seen  better acting in porn

[Kim Jong-un]

can't hold it anymore :'(

[legofan2107]

It's obvious they were forced to do this, very sad

[Sherry Tsao]

what.....what the..what the hell...??! =="

[koalii33]

And the U.S. is sweatin this country?

[koalii33]

Seriously?

[marcuswobbly123]

Just a god damn guy

[reciprokal]

A lot of very bad acting done out of desperation by a very oppressed people. This video made me very sad!

[Алексей Вычиков]

Eat shit

[MainProblemz]

... I rlly dont know wtf 2 say

[Glaube smail]

لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله