Seamen drown trying to save portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, proclaimed heroes

[Liberal_in_LA]

Dear Leader overboard: North Korea honors effort to save sinking pictures

Seamen who reportedly drowned while trying to save portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung are proclaimed labor heroes. It's unknown whether the images were saved and hung up to dry.

Reporting from Seoul - Seamen who bravely go down with their ship can attain glory in any nation, but in North Korea, hero status also comes to seafarers who die while trying to preserve images of the Dear Leader.

Today, the autocratic state offered posthumous awards to crew members who reportedly drowned while attempting to save portraits of leader Kim Jong Il and his late father, Kim Il Sung, as a cargo ship sank in frigid waters off the Chinese coast in November.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-north-korea-heroes23-2010jan23,0,5324539.story

[Rage for Order]

1. I bet their families are very proud

And if they aren't, Kim Jong Il will ship their asses to a gulag in the mountains of North Korea for re-education