I don't know about that. It may be a cultural thing as well. I've seen media clips of Chinese, Japanese and North Koreans when some disaster happens, it can run the gamut of people passing out to a procession of people like that. Can't really be sure

Although it's impossible to know for sure what every North Korean really thinks or whether this is all for show, there is some evidence that some of this can be taken at face value. I say this because I've seen some interviews of ex-North Korean prison guards talking about doing savage things and enforcing unimaginable conditions on political prisoners- in many cases, people not charged with any crime other than being related to someone who has been charged. These guards after later leaving North Korea said candidly in interviews they had no problems handing out the most severe punishments- even to children, since they were related to traitors. Didn't bother their conscience to torture and execute anyone. They at least believed in all of this, maybe the rest is a mix of belief and compliance out of fear, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that there are true believers.

It's genuine. These peope have been brainwashed for every second of their lives. We still underestimate the power of programming in authoritarian societies.

BTW, Kim Jong Un looks like a Korean Eric Cartman.

I had a friend there who traveled into East Germany not too long after the wall fell. He said that it was like taking a time machine back to 1945.