North Korea's first lady cries next to Kim Jong Un during armistice event

North Korea's first lady Ri Sol-ju cried next to her husband and leader Kim Jong-un while singing the national anthem during an event marking the 69th anniversary of the July 27 Korean War armistice, footage aired on Thursday from state-run television KRT showed.

In a speech to commemorate the event, Kim said his country is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent and denounced South Korea's new conservative president Yoon Suk-yeol by name for the first time, labelling attempts to neutralise the North's military as 'nonsense'.

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[bajalifeever]

She's crying for her life, literally.

[callous]

I just realized I've never heard his voice before

[tomzimmerman]

Imagine living in a place where you're required to cry at certain times.

Madness.

[songoku]

Not only the wife, everyone's crying.

[hahaoml]

I don't think y'all understand, to keep up this level of deception within a country, you yourself have to believe it to a certain extent. Those were real emotions.

[wilhelmhesse]

What has been happening in NK for over half a century is worth a major psychiatric study on what exactly mind control is.

[Zirarakhimova]

Imagine living like this your whole life and having no idea there is the whole world outside

[prabhatranjan]

Being a wife of a lunatic is a difficult job. You have to act hard especially on such occasions.

[jamirimaj]

South Korea: "We are offering you aid in form of food, power, and infrastracture"
North Korea: "THEY ARE PUSHING TOWARDS THE BRINK OF A WAR!"

[worldview]

Imagine spending your whole life consumed with hate for another person, never seeing the bright, kind, loving side of things.

[Felled-angel]

Say what you will but this guy is a Machiavelli true and true, "it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both".

[donarrivas]

By her tears, she might feel it could be the last time to see NK intact. She knows many truths of her country's fate.

[anamwarrior]

I was also clapping loudly just to keep myself safe...

[bushranazir]

This man definitely will have a very brutal end.

[kayowem]

You can only tell the strength of your army when war breaks.

[kaiokenkamikaze]

Isn’t it wild to think that an entire country is suffering from mind control

[flovv]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

- Jimi Hendrix

[MORENNO]

These people cry from the despair of knowing that they will never be free, look at those old people, they are shaking, they have no food, and none of the rights that a citizen deserves. Sadness

[aq]

I would cry if I had to be First Lady with Kim jong un too

[downtoearth]

Imagine being married to that thing. I'd cry every second of every day.