The mourning is real.
North Koreans are happy because they don't know any better and they are force-fed propaganda that they are the best in the world and everyone is the enemy.
The Berlin Wall example is good, East Germans being shocked what was in the West. Same thing in Vietnam when Saigon fell in 1975. North Vietnamese had been told that the South was being pillaged by the American and it was their jobs to save them. Once unified, they brought their old stoves, rusty pots and pans and broken mattress to donate to the South only to discover the South already had tvs and lazyboys!
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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
I would think North Koreans must have SOME idea what it's like in the south. I took a tour of Panmujeon and the JSA back in June, and the guide told us that some South Koreans are allowed to work in the factories on the north side. They probably have really strict protocols for working there, but you would think some of them must blab about the south from time to time. I don't know too many South Koreans who don't blab about Starcraft of Girls Generation from time to time  |
The North Koreans probably think those South workers are lying.
Example, in China I told people that in Calgary there are traffic lights that will stay red until it detects a car close to the crosswalk and then it will turn green.
They thought I was bullspitting.