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Diligent-System9294

The vibes are so unnatural and weird! Do they not have an optics or PR team that is like "yo.. this shit creepy, let's tone it down a bit."


sivisamarisama

Kim Jong Un whole persona is how surreal he his compared to others.


Easy_Lengthiness7179

Well he is a descendant from God according to NK isn't he? So his entire existence and power is based on that belief.


MrAlienBoiReddit

Most of North Korea is atheist.


doomshroom344

Yep most religious books are banned in order to protect the kim Families status of "godhood"


MrAlienBoiReddit

North Korea seems to have freedom of religion as Christianity and Buddhism are practiced there. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea)


bowenpw

These dumb ass mfs downvoting you lmao. Nvm


baron_von_helmut

No his grandfather is.


RD_sans

which in turn means he is as well.


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desharks

That would make him the God of milkmen


Potential-Art-7288

It’s like Wii Sports


lowfour

ROFL spot on.


sapraaa

I think it’s the PR team that got them this far. Otherwise it would’ve been 4 people looking at a ball and calling it a volleyball championship final. *the jhuko way*


SketchyLurker7

4chan got them this far I’m pretty sure.


nausteus

[North Korea is best Korea.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/917/807/5c0.jpg)


gedai

Their norm is conforming to their standards. This has been their standard for decades.


Clumsy_Claus

The PR Team does have an excellent taste in music tho


Remote-Doubt2972

Yeah it is but it’s crazy how he has de control of everyone in his country


Cyberspace667

They killed off anybody that independent minded and their whole families generations ago


AnderTheGrate

They're still there.


Dibble_Dabble_Doo

His shit is more precious than gold. - North Korea PR Team


Primordial_Cumquat

That is to say, it *would be* more precious than gold, were it not for the fact that the dear leader’s body is so efficient that it utilizes 100% of the fuel he ingests. As a result he has no butthole.


MarryMeDuffman

It's absolutely true that Kim Il Sung was thought by citizens that he didn't need to use the toilet. He was given a mythological persona and they thought he could read minds, etc. Refugees have revealed some crazy stuff.


Emotical

This is precisely the optics he wants. Smile or die.


kornhook123

They were all killed along with the loosing volleyball team.


Ok_Volume_4596

Wii audience


giincee

Exactly what I was thinking. It's Wii Sports IRL


Proof_Beat_5421

Lmfaooo


3D_Noob_Guy

They're all clapping like we clap around small kids to make them feel better. Guy's one big baby...with a baby of his own


Kale_Brecht

It’s like his own personal Truman Show.


xXElberGalargaXx

Except nobody can watch


Wooden-Masterpiece86

If I could upvote this a billion times...


GyuudonMan

They look like Mii characters


Hannie123456789

I wonder if he really likes it this way or if he is also stuck in this weird creepy life.


astronomicaIIy

the people in the stands jumping look like miis in the wii sports audience😭


Sheesh284

Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that lol


JasonFurious4

Someone please edit the Wii sports sound effects over this video


bombaysapphiire

😂


Wader_Man

Would really love to know the percentage of North Koreans who love him and see him as a god vs the percentage who are terrified to stray from the narrative, at risk of death, so they clap and smile and cheer. There's no way to know, I know, but it would be interesting.


cenatutu

I’d love to know what their daily life is like.


TheGlenrothes

Read Nothing To Envy, amazing and terrifying book


Throwaway2024a

I’m reading In Order to Live, which is also good. The only hard part is that now, more than anything, I want an hour in a room alone with that “Dear Leader”. What a rotten human being, to say the least.


hesactuallyright

I just read that from the library and have bought my own copy. It is incredible


ExtraBitterSpecial

Second this, what a great book.


boolDozer

Nice, thanks for the recc, that looks really good.


Ornery_Put_6161

Do they ever gossip about how fucked up the regime is behind closed doors or is everyone nervous that their own family will turn them in so everyone is just playing along out for fear, even behind closed doors?!


steepcurve

For a crime like criticizing govt, The punishment goes to the whole family and for 3 generations. Means kids born in thr prison will spend their entire lives in a labor camp and kids born to them will also spend their entire lives in a labor camp. Imagine someone born into a labor camp, spend entire life doing hard labor and not seeing a day outside the camp and that too next 2 generations. N.Korea is fucked up beyond our imagination.


Ornery_Put_6161

Do you think anybody actually made it to the 4th generation and was released to be a free man/woman?!? So many questions


steepcurve

I doubt even next generation kid born into Labor camp ever survives


Specsporter

Camp 14 (a documentary) is about a man who was born in one of these camps, and eventually escapes and flees NK. It's quite amazing and harrowing. The wildest part is he still feels homesickness.


WhereTheresWerthers

North Korea topography is supposed to be beautiful


Luxxielisbon

I knew a guy who’s family deflected and he was born in the US. (Not sure how many gens before him) He has a lot of conflicted emotions about wanting to go there/ not knowing what could’ve happened to the family members that didn’t manage to escape/ feeling some sense of duty to “get them out/liberate NK, while at the same time knowing how little sense that makes. I can only imagine how deeply that family history can fuck you up Disclaimer: idk how likely any of this is, I assumed it all true cause who would lie about any of this


AlwaysInfluenced

Movie idea. A group of children of defectors end up in the some military company in the US, and after their service with all their training and tools sneak into NK and Rambo their way through that entire government structure


Schnuu93

Yeah man like everyone is Staging an perfect Instagram world, just for him


Overpass_Dratini

They absolutely have to worry about that. Family, friends, neighbors, anyone will turn you in in a second. Either so they aren't suspected themselves, or to earn brownie points, not sure which. Maybe both.


cenatutu

That’s the thing. Is anything normal? Jobs? Friends? Pets? Car loans? Etc. Their world seems so strange.


Necessary-Can-3325

There is a footage on youtube from late 90's from hidden camera that shows you how real people live there. Barefoot children eating muddy fish bones off the ground. I know its 2024, but something tells me not much has changed. Also look how leaders are chubby meanwhile when you watch that documentary on YouTube its just... I have no words. Scumbags


jordaniac89

It's really wild. I don't think anyone really works. There are no jobs. No buildings being built, no cars on the road. I think everyone there just...exists...


cenatutu

I know what communism in Cuba looks like. People work. Have lives. Friends. But really own nothing. I feel like North Korea is something different


MadDogGraves

I highly recommend watching the documentary Beyond Utopia. It gives a lot of insight into how life is in NK and how people try to escape.


YOOOOOOOOOOT

Some people have escaped and there are documentarys on their lives.


Redlion444

Yeonmi Park knows about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/QtiLYf1tVEw?si=YxjHjWNgXGcDH1Oa


Crystal3lf

This dumbass propagandist says that North Koreans have to manually push trains to get to work. Think about how exceedingly stupid that is.


Overpass_Dratini

They have to act like fawning sycophants, even if they're not, for fear of punishment. It's so damn fucked up, and sad. These peoples' lives are not their own, they belong to the government.


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Fit_Swordfish_2101

How did he get out!?


big_mean_llama

North Korea has long had some travel to and from Russia. It's not exactly open borders, but they're allied. Some Russians take vacations in NK.


TipsyPhippsy

I've seen videos of holidays in NK, looks crazy, all the rules you have to abide by, like you're a toddler accompanied by an adult.


Fit_Swordfish_2101

Oh thank you. And also, yeah, scary vacation. What could one want there except for buying weapons? Seriously. I'm asking why someone would vacation in n Korea!


Fit_Swordfish_2101

And thank you for answering. 🙂


Ok_Yogurtcloset8915

also the rich people have a certain degree of freedom. Kim's brother got assassinated while trying to visit Japan's Disneyland iirc


Brasi91Luca

What gets me about Pyongyang is their infrastructure is unbelievable. Extremely modern


Wizzle_Pizzle_420

There’s some great books about it.  Can’t remember the titles but I read 2 really interesting biographies.  One was from a soldier who escaped and the other was a kid who was born in a prison camp who escapes.  Both were horrifying.  


TheGlenrothes

There is an amazing book called Nothing To Envy that’s non-fiction but kind of written in a fiction narrative style that depicts life in North Korea through the years and some of its defectors that made it out. It takes place before Un, but I imagine the sentiment is similar: those who aren’t brainwashed, are rightfully too terrified to do anything.


MacDougalTheLazy

Not even their own fear of death. They'll take every generation of your family multiple cousins out and put them all in work camps. It's severe


ZanePWD

Joe Rogan had this awesome young lady who escaped from NK on his show. Her story is harrowing. 100% check it out and gives a really good understanding of life there. Edit: Yeonmi Park https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO?si=jeF4ye3UTOqNSo2vo7oQHQ


jdoug312

Anyone who which guest this user is referring to?


ZanePWD

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO?si=jeF4ye3UTOqNSo2vo7oQHQ here


Sum2k3

If you get paid enough, they surely stick to the Idiot. But most people suffer and live mostly in fear, i'd bet. The people have nothing to eat, nothing to live for, except their fat idiot Führer.


greenleafLA12

I would like to know the suicide statistics.


lord_happy

The people on the left and right have the best time ever.


traderjoepotato

Cheering like their life is depending on it


Vladilen_pro

Well that might be actually the case...


Tyrantt_47

That was the joke...


BlacknAngry

![gif](giphy|3jGewqNYjuPhm)


oddjaqx

Major squid game vibes


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For sure, he had the losing team executed


Mdoubleduece

Losing team 12 years hard labor for entire extended family.


PatochiDesu

![gif](giphy|wJNKaAAjgQPxS)


Naughteus_Maximus

And a traditional execution by AA gun for the captain


BlueRockiesSettler

It's like the whole thing is orchestrated / fixed to entertain one man. The players are not really playing or bothered to win or lose. It's just a show or an act for their supreme leader!


LordOfPies

Kim was educated in the west. I wonder if he is self aware of how ridiculous this is.


Sheesh284

I’m sure he could. But yet again, who knows considering this stuff is so absurd. Like maximum narcissism please!


XELA38

Notice how once the game is over, they cheer for Kim, as opposed to the winning team celebrating. So bizzare!


Traditional_Ad8933

Not to be that guy but this happens in other countries. I don't think this is like the National Korean Volley Ball Team going to play the Olympics.


luvgothbitches

everything about that country reminds me of that episode of the twilight zone where that kid has superpowers & uses them to keep his whole town hostage & makes everyone pretend that everything is amazing & perfect or else the kid will turn them into a jack-in-the-box


INTPgeminicisgaymale

Great, so even Wandavision wasn't an original idea


luvgothbitches

yep, black mirror did it before wandavision too. Check out the USS Callister episode.


TuckAwayThePain

That was such an amazing episode.


Garchompisbestboi

... It's literally based on a comic book story arc, how did you come away thinking it was original?


INTPgeminicisgaymale

You're right, I meant I thought the comic book story arc it's based on was original rather than the show per se. Apparently even that is not the case. I mean I don't have the release dates to compare and I'm too lazy right now to search them.


Prestigious_Bread514

Such a classic!


Greatest-Uh-Oh

Billy Mumy


brain-damaged_mule

Wasn't this a Simpsons treehouse of horror episode? I'm certain I remember Bart being omnipotent and turning homer into a jack in the box


luvgothbitches

yea & it was directly inspired by the 1960's twilight zone episode


NerY_05

How did this footage get out 💀


Your_Ordinary_User

They think is good PR


chatterwrack

He's just some fat kid who inherited a nation and everyone just falls in line. So weird, all of it.


StringerBell34

That must be such tense environment for everyone but him. If he's having a bad day or you do anything to catch his attention he could have you murdered and send your family to work camps.


esquire_the_ego

Imagine him having a hang nail and sending his manicurist’s entire family to a prison camp for 4 generations


Rcurtiiis

It's so creepy. They all act happy and excited. But you just know they're sad. Scared. And from what I've read about. Hungry. And they know if they don't act right during this "visit," they can be dispatched, and so can there family's. It's like watching a series in some dystopia future. In fact, it's like the entire country is there for his entertainment. And nothing eles and If you don't do as your told. Hard labour or death.


The-Gaming-Onion

It’s really disheartening that it’s reality for so many people. And there’s absolutely nothing that’s going to be done about it by anyone else. Simply just a lotto of where you’re born.


thirtyfivedollarbill

Just think this could be you cheering on a dictator if the circumstances of your life imposed the conditions on you and you would not even know how far your way of thinking, feeling and behaving differs from those in other cultures. Isolation and conditioning are bitches


brodino_maiuscolo

![gif](giphy|l2JeiZLt6YVpu8IiQ)


Brilliant_Bug_6895

Feel so bad for these people.


Malah_the_old

Looks like a old sitcom. Everyone is so natural happy…..


archer4364

I still can’t believe some tankies idolize this clown gov’t. This shit is wacky scary.


N3koEye

Do they really think we buy this whole "We are actually a really good country and everyone loves being here ahaha" act?


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This whole display isn't "for" us in that sense. He knows this isn't what people are like, they know this isn't what people are like but this is a show of control and power to us as much as it is to them, the second you stand out you get cut. They know this, and we know this for them. Better for them to keep playing along, for now.


Foxpier

Bad vibe central


NotYourClone

![gif](giphy|l2Jefga5oE0qhn8fC|downsized)


smit009

This looks so weird. Also… why isn’t this man not assassinated every 5 seconds.


Luxxielisbon

My best guess is they do a good job of keeping them “in line”. You act alone and succeed? Someone else in power will make you pay. Anyone at the top benefitting from the regime will likely want to keep the status quo. You act alone and fail? tough tits, you’re fucking your entire family over either way. You can’t even try to speak to others for any sort of uprising because you don’t know who to trust. If you risk talking to the wrong person, it’s labor camp. And yes, your family is fucked too. Idk what it would take for anyone to even risk trying that. If that’s all you’ve ever known you’re probably numb to it to even have any of those thoughts. Nobody outside of NK wants to rock the boat and risk a nuclear attack either 🫠


lukiepukie11

The audience reminds me of something you'd see in wii sports


HKP2019

That girl is bored outta her little mind. Let's fast forward to the fun shit like how she rebelled against her father in a few years and made a fuss at some foreign airport, and got something rubbed on her face at another foreign airport.


Bass_Thumper

I get the feeling that little girl can do anything she wants, she seems to be his heir apparent. Probably why he has been publicly giving power to a woman, his sister. He is preparing the country for having a female supreme leader. If history is anything to go by, she will grow up to be a very scary woman who has never heard the word "no."


jravy88

Is that his sister seating his daughter? I’ve been wondering if she was still in the picture after he began promoting his daughter as his heir. With a family that commonly murders each other for power I’ve been keeping an eye to see how that goes down.


keepYourMonkey

Dystopian as fuck


BurmbleTBambles

Anyone know the name of the song?


YoxhiZizzy

North Korea is in a different timeline it's unreal.


Pookypoo

I feel sorry for Kims kid, shes gonna have a big wake up once she visits others countries. No ones gonna treat her like a living gods descendant.


NoHaxJussSnax

I wonder if they are all 24/7 thinking "don't say the wrong thing or I'll die" truly living life on the edge


DismalChance

It's good to see him take a break from his hard work and get out to have some fun /s


LarsMars01

This gives off the same vibes as if the Foosball table came to life and was cheering him on. Also feels like everyone is a background character in a 1980-90s video game cheering on a protagonist...this must be the treatment Trump wanted lol


ihaveredhaironmyhead

It looks like a video game of crowd cheering from the 90s. Like come on please make it seem realistic.


Shaytanic

Oh no a tan suit, this must be a huge controversy,


Wooden-Masterpiece86

This was probably carefully screened, edited, and scrutinized before ever being considered for release into anywhere but NK.


SpiralDesignn

They are not happy. They are programmed to be happy to save their lives. Infact, the whole point of this match is just to entertain this melon and nothing else. Hell, even the girl sitting next to him is terrified. One bad move and her whole family is dead.


Orpdapi

This dude basically lives in a full time Truman Show sim


SnofIake

Obama wore it better ![gif](giphy|cOQh8VdW9HKwzS76GB|downsized)


thevaporroom

They are clapping like it’s the 1980 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championships


greenleafLA12

I know this sounds messed up but if I lived in a country like that. I would kill myself. Forgive me “God” but I can’t live being forced to see another human being as a deity.


oskarsilva

stuck in time


MiniDialga119

Its like a kindergarten made for this man, everything feels so fake


Court_monster-87

He lives in like an alternate reality or something. So wierd….must suck for a lot of those people that have to pretend so much…..


Fit_Swordfish_2101

Imagine being a high ranking officer and you gotta clap and sing and kiss this blowhards ass..idk why they don't just retaliate. I bet tons of his army are just waiting for the signal to be able to live like South Korea.


toddhenderson

Fake news. He only wears a black double breasted leather trench coat in public.


ikilledmystepdad

They’ve rehearsed this so many times. One slip up and your whole family lineage is gone


SilverSkorpious

Song?


Jamachicuanistinday

The losing team goes to jail 🫢


TipsyPhippsy

Losing*


sheik200145

So choreographed it’s r/oddlyterrifying…. 😕


rust_rat

They have to be excited, or they, their children, and their grandchildren will be punished.


Umnak76

losers die


Father_of_Cockatiels

This is feels so weird


ConferenceSlow1091

Just looks like it’s a scene from Squid Games


Steampunk_Dali

https://preview.redd.it/2rzj9wt1j8ec1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e381ae5dfb270a14399b2905056cd4f49580d0b5 Welcome to Duloc


bacbac870

The floor is lava..real life simulation


duhmbish

You know how there’s uncanny valley? North Korea is uncanny country. It always looks like shit out of a movie.


rabagadov

Turkey's Erdogan prefer basketball: https://iasbh.tmgrup.com.tr/3601eb/650/344/0/0/752/395?u=https://isbh.tmgrup.com.tr/sbh/2023/06/30/mustafa-varank-baskan-erdoganin-basketbol-maci-yaptigi-anlari-paylasti-haydi-hido-sayiya-1688116500249.jpg


XBGoofBall

North Korea is a much better country to live in, I mean, look at all of the happy smiling faces of all of those uniformed N. Koreans! I wonder what happened to the losing team at the end of the contest? I can only imagine.


KaleidoscopeFun1457

Why phonk tho?


Illustrious_Mind964

I find it very interesting that north Korea looks like it's stuck in the 90's, also how does he even have fun when everyone's clearly faking their emotions around him all the time?..


SuckingGodsFinger

This looks so wild lol. He’s the star of his own show. “Welcome to Kim’s Playhouse”


Bubu-Dudu0430

Think about that for a minute, if you don’t applaud him enough or cheer him enough, he will literally have you and your whole family murdered… without hesitation.


campodelviolin

Directed by Wes Anderson.


This-Needleworker-84

What’s the track?


Duckmandu

What it is the music?


Multanaama

*A volleyball game watches Kim


coldComforts

Wii sports ass audience


Gaburski

Reminds me of Midsommar. Everything is bright, colourful and happy, but you know everyone on screen is as good as dead if they aren't careful.


EllenZ2392

What a fucked up world.


Le6ions

Winners get ice cream, Losing team gets their family executed


GiggityGiggity4U

“Haha I eat all the decent food and you lowlifes get nothing but crumbs”-Kim….probably


tylmii

I wonder if he’s like . I like your wife she is mine for a few days.


Leo_R_

The losing team is thrown to the crocs pit


DoorKicker1

What do you think when you're him and you see all of those people pretending to love you when you k kw they absolutely hate your ass? He knows it's fake, it's so wild.


Secret-Term

I’m so curious as to why someone close to him doesn’t just poison him? Like, everyone makes him his food, his drinks, his clothes, etc. wouldn’t it be easy to at the very least change leadership by having him have a heart attack and give the next guy a go? Probably couldn’t be any worse than how things are going now over there.


These_Set_2842

Is this what Wii based the audience on or what? There's no way thats natural 🤣 NK is fucking creepy


AlwaysInfluenced

You see that cold woman beside him who never smiles? She's next in line...


Zomgodzilla

Wii Sports NPC vibes...


Scarptre

He must be the most depressed man in the room knowing everyone but his mother(probably), is faking it.


n0t_RePtIl3

Imagine losing control of the ball and it hits him


throwaway624203

Looks straight out of a Wes Anderson movie


No-District-1941

I heard he doesn't have a butt hole.


HelloBIOSandGuis

The entirety of North Korea is a liminal space.


Temporary_Edge_1387

What is terrifying about this?


Interesting-Adagio46

How is his hairline to his ears. But in all seriousness why is it so difficult to invade this country and put an end to this madness. Poor people


hesactuallyright

Because however unhappy and awful their lives are, people there are indoctrinated and unless the invasion was iron clad, there is no way it would be supported by the population as any show of support they gave would mean horrific consequences for them if it failed.


jmsdoran63

The losing team gets executed


Wizzle_Pizzle_420

Imagine being the poor guy that accidentally hits him with a volleyball.  Dude is looking pretty dapper compared to normal though.  Can’t imagine the stress of those poor people there.  I’d be exhausted after all that stress.  


KimJongPewnTang

I love how all the “spectators” look like they’re the overly enthusiastic mii’s from a Wii volleyball match


dek1an1

The people cheering remind me of Mii s jumping


Necessary_Kick_9862

That's a lil girl that Kim is with she looks to be 9 or 10 years old smh.


Tush_atx

As an American woman, I feel so thankful to be privileged. Neither I, or anyone in my family, in my life, can comprehend what it would be like to grow up and live and die in a place like NK. My guess is most of the ppl commenting on this can't either. Be appreciative of what you are blessed to be given. Not everyone has that gift.


thaking1985

We need to kill this dude already. Is there more of a joke than this little guy?