“Support in Totality”

Up to 100,000 North Koreans were reported by state media to have rallied in the capitol city of Pyongyang to denounce the U.S. and other nations for sanctions and other attempts to interfere in their country’s weapons testing plans. The people’s presence to support the government would be much more convincing if it were not mandatory.

Citizens who chanted threats to crush the United States may have had a different motivation to come to the rally. The state promised every starving person who showed up a free bowl of grass to eat.