One of the oldest plays in the North Korean playbook involves making their portly leader look as heroic and awe-inspiring as possible through highly manicured photos.
(They haven’t always worked, mind you.)
Kim Jong Un’s obsessive grip on his secretive nation ensures that only the information and imagery that he wants out of North Korea is what gets out of the Hermit Kingdom.
It’s all about controlling the narrative for the North Korean strongman, and that was no different in April, when the nation produced a number of photos meant to highlight the nation’s rapidly modernizing military.
It included a number of images highlighting North Korean military specialists performing drills, while Kim looks on intently.
So intently, in fact, that he needed a rather impressive
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