According to a South Korean researcher, the video shows North Korea’s confidence in its own military capabilities is growing.
Kim Jong-un walks in slow motion towards the camera with generals beside him. The North Korean leader is wearing a black leather jacket and wearing black glasses. Music creates excitement.
Everyone is looking at their watch. Follow quick image clips from one man to another. Then Kim takes the black glasses from her eyes and nods.
A huge missile slowly rolls out of the hall.
The video is so flamboyant that it has provided delicious material for Finnish parody masters.
The international media has also taken up the issue. It seems that North Korea is trying to catch up with some sort of old-school Hollywood style, describes the news agency AFP, for example. The video also features echoes from the 80’s Top Gun movie where Tom Cruise presented a fighter pilot, and the South Korean Gangnam Style hit of years ago.
In the meme, Kim is named “Top Kim Jong Dreams” and the video is “Pyongyang Style.”
However, this is not a joke but a major missile test.
“Shows that they are increasingly relying on their military power”
For the first time since 2017, North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday. The Hwasong-17 missile flew higher and farther than any previous missile in North Korea. It eventually fell into the sea west of Japan.
North Korea has developed ever larger and more missile missiles. Recently, it has stepped up its missile tests.
Flying videos of North Korea showing military power have come before. However, the new video shows North Korea’s growing confidence in its own military capabilities, says researcher interviewed by AFP Cheong Seong-Chang from the North Korean Research Center of the South Korean Sejong Institute.
– They trust their power now to the extent that they feel it is natural to make a film and enjoy it, the researcher says.
North Korea has invested in movies
Father and predecessor of Kim Jong-un Kim Jong-il was known as a passionate film enthusiast.
Among other things, he is said to have appointed a South Korean film director in 1978 Shin Sang-okin and the actor Choi Eun-heen abduction. The purpose of the abduction would have been to develop the North Korean film industry.
Today, North Korea invests significant sums in movies despite the economic downturn. Movies are typically propaganda praising the country-leading Kim Dynasty.