North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Shows The Other Side Of Him {Real Or Gimmick}, Cries At Funeral Of His Trusted Aide.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un showed a form of emotion that we could not deduce to be real or inline with national crying gimmick at important funerals. Mr Kim Jong-Un was seen openly crying at the funeral of his most trusted aide. He touched the face of his late comrade and confidant during his state funeral today, describing him as a 'close comrade-in-arms whom nobody can replace'.

Mr Kim Yang-Gon, who was a secretary of the ruling Workers' Party, died in a car accident Tuesday Dec. 29th,  aged 73.

Even though Mr Kim Jong-Un could not hold back his emotions, it could still be a part of the country's norm in which citizens must cry at the burial of an important politician.  You would recall Reuters publication in 2011,  following the period of mourning for his late father Kim Jong-Il,  North Korean authorities reportedly punished citizens who did not display enough sadness at his death.

That is according to the Daily NK, an online newspaper based in South Korea, which said that government officials were handing down periods of at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who did not participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but did not cry and did not seem genuine.