Cry, Koreans! Cry!

Red Hawk's Commentary: 

A while ago, I wrote about North Korea. The post was regarding the funeral of Kim Jong II and how the North Koreans cried, and I mean seriously crying. It got me thinking, wow, they seriously loved Kim. One who is not living in the country bound to wonder, why? Why - because of so many stories told of how the country is being run and the people are living in poverty, you can't blame me for being a skeptic, can you? And then, I came across another post that covered the story on the funeral and it became much more interesting after that! 


The news:

Image source: Huffingtonpost

You'd better watch out, you'd better cry. You'd better pout, I'm telling you why: North Korea's punishing insincere mourners, according to the Daily NK.

An anonymous source tells the Daily NK, a South Korea-based publication in opposition of the North Korean regime, that "authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn't participate in the organized gatherings" to mourn the death of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, and to those "who did participate but didn't cry and didn't seem genuine."

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 percent of inmates die of malnutrition.

The exact number of those to be sent to camps is unclear, reports the Daily Mail, but the paper estimates it could be in the thousands.

Image source: Mirror.co.uk

Continue with the commentary: 

Come to think of it, who wouldn't cry and I mean seriously cry if otherwise you would be sent to labor camps as punishment?Now that's taking the drama to a whole different level! Can it be that they were crying not because of Kim Jong but for the sake of their lives? It's not impossible, right? 

Let's take a look at the picture above. Who didn't cry sincerely?? Report them!

News Source: via HuffingtonPost