The North Korean state news agency has been caught manipulating photos from the memorial service of Kim Jong-il, but in such a minor and pointless way that it underscores the paranoid insanity of ...

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Seoul — As Kim Jong Un walked with the car carrying the coffin of his father, former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, the public displays of grief by mourners lining the funeral procession route ...

Surprising no one, it was a strange occasion with a lot of weeping involved. If you ever wanted to see Orwell’s vision for 1984 in real life (and I’m not sure why you would), this is remarkably close.