{"id":40021,"date":"2019-03-20T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=40021"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:21:39","slug":"kim-jong-uns-personal-photographer-fired-for-breaking-photography-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/kim-jong-uns-personal-photographer-fired-for-breaking-photography-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un\u2019s personal photographer fired for breaking photography rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40024\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4.jpg\" alt=\"Ri, circle in red, photographing Kim Jong Un on March 10 during the Supreme People's Assembly elections\" width=\"1000\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4-696x448.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/1\ud638-\uc0ac\uc9c4-652x420.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this still shot, taken by Daily NK prior to being edited by Korean Art Film Studio, Ri, circle in red, is shown photographing Kim Jong Un on March 10 during the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly elections. Image: DPRK Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kim Jong Un\u2019s personal photographer who is tasked with taking videos and photos of the leader up close has been fired and kicked out of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) for damaging the \u201cSupreme Dignity\u201d (Kim Jong Un).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe personal photographer and photo editor for Kim Jong Un, a 47-year-old man with the surname Ri,\u00a0who is part of the Korean Art Film Studio, was kicked out of the party and fired from his position on March 12,\u201d said a source in Pyongyang on March 18.<\/p>\n<p>Ri accompanied Kim as his personal photographer during the recent second US-DPRK summit in Hanoi.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the turn of events occurred due to his strong devotion and enthusiasm for the job.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, Ri filmed Kim voting at the No. 10 election district on March 10, the day of the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly (SPA) election. Ri reportedly violated set rules for filming Kim when he took a picture right in front of the leader and the camera\u2019s flash covered Kim\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n<p>A video published on the North Korean international-facing media outlet \u201cDPRK Today\u201d showed Ri moving around energetically, taking photos of Kim upon his arrival by car in front of the district\u2019s election site.<\/p>\n<p>The scene that caused an issue in the video was after Kim got out of his car, shook hands with the candidate for the district, Kimchaek University of Technology President Hong So-Hon, turned around and was waving to locals cheering his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Ri\u2019s presence blocked part of Kim\u2019s body from the crowd for around three seconds, and the North Korean authorities immediately considered this as damaging to the Supreme Dignity. The flash of the camera Ri was using also covered Kim\u2019s neck in the shot, which was an even bigger issue.<\/p>\n<p>Another camera filming the scene captured what had transpired and Ri was accused of \u201cadjusting the angle so that the camera\u2019s flash covered the Dear and Respected Supreme Leader Comrade\u2019s neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Ri violated the rule that photographers must not take a picture of the Supreme Leader within a radius of two meters, and a further rule that restricts photographers from taking pictures or video right in front of the leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Korean Art Film Studio ruled that Ri had committed the \u201canti-Party act of damaging the Supreme Dignity of our Party\u201d and decided on March 12 that he would be kicked out of the party and removed from his position, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe head photographer who had been at the scene told Ri that the video he took right in front of Kim Jong Un was a \u2018video that damages the Supreme Dignity,\u2019 and fired him,\u201d a separate source in Pyongyang with knowledge of the incident said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation of the video editing mistake in the video taken by the Korean Art Film Studio of the election site scene began on March 13. The video was re-edited to delete the scene and now the video doesn\u2019t show Ri at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong Un\u2019s personal photographer who is tasked with taking videos and photos of the leader up close has been fired and kicked out of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) for damaging the \u201cSupreme Dignity\u201d (Kim Jong Un). \u201cThe personal photographer and photo editor for Kim Jong Un, a 47-year-old man with the surname [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":40024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kim Jong Un\u2019s personal photographer fired for breaking photography rules - 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