r/interestingasfuck • u/Dismal-Display-370 • 18h ago

Everyone is too happy around this guy

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u/CCDemille 17h ago

I wonder what it's like for him? It's obvious to us, they are all pretending as hard as they can, but to him, everywhere he goes, people are delirious to meet him. Did he buy into.it after a time? Or does he know its all bullshit but try to suppress it?

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u/Dismal-Display-370 17h ago edited 17h ago

I think he can tell it's fake. And even if he tries to pretend it's not, the constant behavior of people just acting like this around you has to get to you.

Like there is no one this guy could be genuine to, his daughter's too young. He picked his wife at an opera, definitely not his generals. Like there is not a single person in this world he could have a genuine conversation with.

Everyone would be too terrified, too bureaucratic or too reverent (because of propaganda) to speak to him like another human being I wonder how he doesn't just get depression

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u/cholmes 17h ago

He seemed chill around Dennis Rodman.

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u/InvestNorthWest 17h ago

They called it "basketball diplomacy"

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u/DannyCrane9476 17h ago

At least until Rodman says something the Glorious Leader objected to, then it straight to the AA Gun testing range.

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u/DiligentGuitar246 17h ago

“Have you ever seen a sad person on a jet ski?”

I have a feeling his life is just a constant state of jet ski. There’s no time or reason to get sad when everyone’s job in your entire country is to do nothing but make you happy.

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u/Cicer 17h ago

Loki Mobius?

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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 10h ago

It's Morbin time!!

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u/dawidlijewski 12h ago

Nah, the top circle is honest with him. The state would just collapse on lies alone and endless rose-tinted reports.

The inner circle is living off the state, driving luxury cars, and traveling around the world. They are basically carrying themselves like mobsters or feudal dukes.

He attended a private Swiss school. His father was known for his taste in expensive liquor.

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u/Putrid-Anything-4401 4h ago

His father carried one of the most extensive Hollywood film collections in the world. For guys who hate western culture, they surround themselves with it.

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u/LastAd8270 4h ago

They dont hate western culture. Its just easier to rally and control a country around a common enemy.

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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 10h ago

He is basically a zoo animal

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u/WingerRules 8h ago edited 8h ago

The private chef to the Kim family that escaped claimed he had encountered real conversations with him when he was growing up. For instance, on a trip to a beach he recalled being in a limo alone with him and he Un started commenting about how they're on a trip to the beach "but what of the people". So he definitely knew about the disparity. Reports like that plus his western schooling made me hope he would be less insane when he took over but it didnt happen.

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u/pleasehelpteeth 9m ago

Its really hard to know whats real or not but I think quality of life has improved but yeah still an insane tyrannical place.

The real question is if he wanted out what can he actually do. He cant just call south Korea and say let's do this thing it would start a war

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u/TRR462 14h ago

Probably why he used to enjoy talking with Dennis “the worm” Rodman, the dictator is a big basketball fan.

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u/Excuse 17h ago

His sister definitely seems like the type of person who you don't want to have a genuine conversation with.

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u/APilgrimShadow 14h ago

Wrong. Dennis Rodman could have a genuine conversation with him.

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u/Miserable_Fee1545 13h ago

He could have a genuine conversation with me.

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u/inspectormadget6421 13h ago

being a god emperor for life, absolute power and every woman everywhere in the country available to you. idk man seems like a pretty good cure for depression

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u/idrkmatewastaken 13h ago

Fairly certain Donald Trump made a fat joke about him while he was in the room.
If that counts for anything

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u/SeaPollution2750 13h ago

He looks like a depressive eater.

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u/Qabbalah 11h ago

I wonder how he doesn't just get depression

What makes you think he doesn't?

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u/ViruliferousBadger 10h ago

His sister, who is as bad as him and probably next in line to rule the country if she can have her way and off him.

That's as genuine as anything, talking to a person who'd kill you as quick as tell you how her day "re-educating" people was.

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u/Heavy_Bicycle6524 10h ago

Haven’t you seen Team America. He is very sad and Ronrey

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u/Random_Introvert_42 2h ago

He's used to it since he was an infant. It's his normal. He has nothing to compare to, to tell it's fake.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 1h ago

There is the possibility he & his generals have a quiet understanding that the military could just go ahead and kill his whole family & take over, but are content with permitting the Kims be the almost god-like face of the government.

Thus in the event that everything goes really bad, like a popular uprising or a coalition invasion that will overthrow or otherwise collapse the government, the military can waltz in and execute them, potentially saving much of the North Korean elite face by claiming "look! we got rid of the crazy family that was totally in charge of everything! Isn't it such a relief that sane people are in charge now to negotiate with you now?"

Then, much of the country's leadership & military can have more leverage in negotiating themselves into better positions in whatever a post-Kim North Korea would look like since they "got rid of the problem" & ideally made whatever DPRK-upheaving conflict shorter.

Killing them before an upheaval loses the other leaders that possible insurance policy (maybe even inevitable depending on how they view their strategic situation), and in the meantime, North Korea's elite can just enjoy the riches of their status quo anyway, as long as no one tries to step out of line to rock the boat. The Kims get enjoy being the wealthiest of North Koreans & just about any indulgence the country can afford to be the insurance policy. The regular North Koreans have to just keep trying to float on the waves caused by decisions of their leaders.

This is assuming of course that most of the North Koreans aren't as delusional as they seem.

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u/5hadow 17h ago

Narcissist can't tell. This is his reality, he fully believes this.

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u/Carrman099 16h ago

Why would they run a system like this? It’s completely illogical and would have caused the country to collapse decades ago.