Kim Jong-Il is dead

[Orph]

I was under the impression that there was a city right over the borderline (well, close enough anyway) but it is basically an idealistic mock-up and perhaps no one actually lives there (or they do but they're living a lie)

North Korea built it hoping that South Koreans would see how awesome it was and defect to the north lol

[Cail]

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UAu...1229_wmain.jpg

The funeral procession for Kim Jong-Il was carried out with military precision and when a handful of dawdlers messed up those regimented lines, they were eliminated. From the photo, that is.

A photo released by the North Korea's state news agency and transmitted by the Germany-based European Pressphoto Agency is slightly different from a photo taken at nearly the identical moment and released by Japanese agency Kyodo News.

The Japanese picture captured a half-dozen men near a camera on a tripod lingering behind the line of mourners on the left side of the boulevard as the motorcade passed by.

In the photo by the North Korean Central News Agency, those men, their camera and their footprints have been digitally removed, restoring absolute order to the crowds lining the boulevard as the cortege passed by.

The alterations were discovered by the New York Times with the help of digital forensics expert Hany Farid of Dartmouth College.

The European Pressphoto Agency, which distributed the doctored North Korea photo, issued a "mandatory kill" for its clients, meaning they were not to use the picture.

The agency granted an exception to ABC News "for the sole purpose of being able to show and explain what had been altered before the picture was provided to international news agencies by KCNA [North Korean Central News Agency]. We consider this as part of a transparent and responsible clarification process."

A European Pressphoto Agency spokeswoman told ABC News, "Any kind of digital manipulation violates EPA's code of ethics."

[Silenka]

Should probably just be happy they weren't sent to the coal mines for messing up the feng shui of Kim-Jong's funeral really.

Unless they were...

[Kaylia]

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UAu...1229_wmain.jpg

I like that they removed a few people on the left side and added one on the right side.


But is the photoshop really an issue? I mean, it's nowhere as ridiculous as the missile launch, and official release here often get photo shopped as well.

[kuronosan]

Sorry to whoever asked, I didn't post this soon enough:

http://izit.org/sites/izit.org/files...g-ok_10889.jpg

Now we just need one that's the other way around!