South Korea's media dismisses the North Korean dictator's performance as 'crocodile tears'. FMTNews Seoul
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches a military parade during the 75th anniversary of the country’s ruling party ceremony in Pyongyang on Oct 10.
He repeatedly and effusively thanked the citizens and military for their loyalty and for remaining healthy in the face of the global coronavirus epidemic, which he insisted had not caused a single case in the North. At one point he went as far as apologising for failing to meet expectations: “Our people have placed trust, as high as sky and as deep as sea, on me, but I have failed to always live up to it satisfactorily,” he said.
But the acknowledgement of personal fallibility is a marked contrast to the superlative-laden propaganda that exalted his grandfather Kim Il-sung, the North’s founder. His speech was “about the people” and “carefully calibrated to come across as genuine and relatable”, she told AFP.
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