Kim Jong-un rides a horse!

January 3, 2020 • 11:45 am

I saw a photo of this, but didn’t know a video existed. It does (below), and was published by The Sun. And I’ll be damned if the pudgy little dictator doesn’t actually ride the horse!  According to reports, Kim Jong-chub rode the horse up Mount Paektu, a sacred mountain and a symbol of the DPRK’s “revolution.” As YouTube states,

North Korea’s state-run television KRT broadcast a new video of leader Kim Jong Un riding white horse at a sacred mountain with his aides in late 2019.

First Putin and now Kim Jong-un! Is this some way to proclaim virility and intransigence? I’m actually surprised they let him get on that horse, given that an accident would throw the State into turmoil. Could it be a double?

The cabin he looks at is the one in which Kim Jong-Il is said to have been born, though he wasn’t really. That’s a big myth.

Listen to the hyper-excited announcer, typical of North Korean television. The whole state would be a joke if it weren’t busy starving, oppressing, and killing its citizens.

32 thoughts on “Kim Jong-un rides a horse!”

  1. Myth makes use of white of black with horses, doesn’t it? Headless Horseman has a black horse, Gandalf has a white horse. What is the origin of using these colors in myth?

    In the case of DPRK, is it a clear demonstration of racism? There aren’t any people of color there.

    1. Oh dear – I was proud of myself for correcting the “or” to “of” but that _created_ a typo!

      I blame the tiny screen.

    1. I was wondering if he used stairs to get on the horse and hidden belts to stay on the saddle? But that’s obese-dictator shaming and it is not a good thought.

    2. Thanks for that, it triggered images of trump trying to compete by galloping shirtless down fifth ave. Thank goodness it’s past lunch time

      1. Well there are the images of Trump playing tennis while wearing somewhat translucent white shorts.

        I need to poke out my mind’s eye right now. Serves me right.

    3. I’m reminded of LBJ lifting his shirt to show the media the healing scar from his gall bladder surgery. Of course photographs of his abdomen were taken. Later, some wit superimposed a map of S.E. Asia/Vietnam on his abdomen in one of the photographs.

  3. Are we sure it’s him except in the close-ups? The rider on the horse has oddly immobile legs, almost as if it’s a dummy somehow fixed onto the saddle.

  7. “Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”

    — Revelation 6:8

      1. The white horse of the apocalypse symbolized pestilence or conquest. Though I don’t know the difference between pale and white. Maybe its a Palamino. 😉

          1. Dunno, that song is a little hazy.

            From google:

            The general consensus is that “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” is a snapshot of a drunken sexual escapade gone awry.

            Hadn’t heard that interpretation before.

  8. I love the throaty voice-over. “Hochi hoochi mochidaaaa!, presidena, ichaaoooooo!” Like my childhood, Saturday morning westerns on S_T_E_R_O_I_D_S. Are the little people really buying this? Or do they shake their heads and think, – there he goes again.

  9. “I’m actually surprised they let him get on that horse, given that an accident would throw the State into turmoil.”
    You have to understand how important myth and symbol are to this type of regime. This kind of thing seems silly to us, but is a vital part of holding power for Kim. So yeah, easily worth the risk, which is small anyway, I’m sure they picked the most docile/well trained horse they could find.

  13. Well I’m not going to join in the derision. I sat on a horse once. It was an awfully long way down and there was no apparent means of steering, no brake pedal, no roll cage and no seat belt. Fortunately the horse didn’t seem to want to go anywhere so I got off before anything alarming could happen.

    cr

    1. As a life-long rider, I surmise that something, whether KJI himself or a dummy representing him, is strapped into the saddle. The legs are completely still, as would be true for an expert equestrian on a galloping horse, but in such a rider one would see evidence of isometric muscle tension. These legs are flaccid.

  14. I doubt he’s attached to the horse which would be very dangerous should it slip & fall.

    Before Kim Jong-un became a porker & was only mildly round he was schooled in Switzerland – he attended the International School of Berne undercover with a false name & failed all his exams & then the Schule Liebefeld Steinhölzli also under a fake name, again he didn’t stand out, but he was obsessed with basketball, Chicago Bulls & Michael Jordan. He played basketball everyday.

    During holidays he was taken skiing to Italy, the Swiss Alps & the French Riviera by his aunt who [I think] lived in Geneva.

    I would be surprised if he didn’t learn to horse ride somewhat at rich-kids-school [ISBerne]. His stiff riding is most likely due to having underdeveloped ‘riding muscles’ since he’s had many years of being the blob – enough time to lose any muscle memory/condition.

    1. It’s not “stiff riding”. It looks like expert riding, except the legs are flaccid. It doesn’t look real in any way to me.

    2. “he attended the International School of Berne undercover with a false name & failed all his exams”

      I’m not sure whether to be amused or terrified.

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