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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Defectors have mentioned that there is pressure to perform and "outcry" and "outgrieve" the person next to you because North Koreans know they are always being watched. When his father died in 1994, there were several catagories of loyalty that people were classified into and there were rumors that your level of grief was one factor in how you were classified.
A schoolteacher who defected to the South mentioned that she even saw young school-children putting saliva on their faces to make it look like they were crying.
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I've heard that the crying when Kim Il Sung died in 1994 was mostly genuine since the North was in a better situation than the South for most years leading up to his death.