North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un seems to enjoy basketball, testing missiles, and, yes, long strolls on the beach.
Atop a white horse and gazing out to the horizon, the supreme leader of the hermit nation stars in a recent propaganda film released by North Korean state media.
The film lauds Kim’s economic leadership while ignoring a slew of sanctions imposed on the communist nation for recent missile tests, according to a report.
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Footage released on YouTube shows the leader riding on the beach, addressing his crying subjects, ripping through cigarettes, posing with the military, and traveling through the country.
The white horse is a symbol of North Korea’s ruling dynasty, the report noted.
“The overriding theme of the documentary is Kim’s devotion to and hard work for the people,” Rachel Minyoung Lee, a nonresident fellow with the 38 North program at the Washington-based Stimson Center, said.
“I don’t think we should read too much into the horse scenes, much less link them to North Korea’s recent missile launches and North Korea’s missile test plans,” Lee added.
The communist nation has experienced its “worst-ever hardships” in the previous year, according to the documentary.
As a consequence, the supreme leader’s “body has been completely withered away” by hard work, according to the propaganda’s narrator.
This representation of Kim is meant to “humanize” him, according to Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies.
“The horse-riding scenes, in particular, seem to have been produced to show off his health at home and abroad,” Cheong Seong-chang of the Center for North Korea Studies at the Sejong Institute, said.
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“It shows his strong determination and motivation for the new year.”
