{"id":20741,"date":"2012-08-06T17:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=20741"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:27:46","slug":"kim-caught-fiddling-as-rome-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-caught-fiddling-as-rome-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Caught Fiddling as Rome Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[imText1]Ri Sol Joo has caught the attention of the international community with her shows of public affection for husband Kim Jong Eun but, contrary to the aim, this is eliciting a negative response from some sections of the North Korean public. <\/p>\n<p>A source from Hyesan in Yangkang Province told Daily NK today, \u201cRecently, a documentary film \u2018Marshal Kim Jong Eun\u2019s Guidance in All Areas of the People\u2019s Economy\u2019 has been on Chosun Central TV every day. The film shows scenes praising Kim Jong Eun\u2019s achievements over the past six months, and in showing the Moran Hill Orchestra performance and Rungra People\u2019s Resort opening it includes footage of him and his wife.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cThe nation\u2019s people are suffering and dying due to the severe drought in May and recent rainy season floods, but the supreme leader is playing childishly at an amusement park, arm in arm with some woman or other. The people find it pretty wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cThings are really tough, and people deplore the way we are meant to trust some little guy whose actions are so unfit for a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the appearance of Ri Sol Joo, who has no relation to the tasks of the Party whatsoever, is creating further negativity, a second source added.<\/p>\n<p>The Chongjin-based source explained, \u201cIn the past when Kim Il Sung\u2019s wife Kim Sung Ae accompanied him on his guidance visits, the people considered it natural because she was the Vice-chair of the Union of Democratic Women, but Ri Sol Joo is just \u2018his woman\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The source added, however, \u201cKim Jong Eun\u2019s behavior does not fit the reality for the people. 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