Last month, we saw footage of North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong Il. Shockingly, it now turns out some of those people were just faking it! As punishment, authorities are handing down six months in a labor-training camp to all those “who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings” to mourn the death of Dear Leader, and to those “who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine.”
See if you can spot the fake mourners among this footage:
Newser reports that mourners who came off as insincere have already been sent to join the 200 000 other North Koreans already in labor camps. An Amnesty International report published in May 2011 paints a dark picture of what’s in store at those camps – estimates suggest that 40% of inmates die of malnutrition.
The punishment news comes shortly after an announcement Thursday that Kim Jong Il’s embalmed remains would go on permanent display in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, the Associated Press reports, just as his father and previous North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung, was enshrined. AP notes that along with the enshrinement, a new statue and “towers to his immortality” will be erected to salute the late Supreme Leader.
[Source: Daily NK]
