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    North Korea Restores Order to Kim Funeral With Photoshop

    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."

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    • Allah  •  Tucson, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      In the communist word, the only thing they worry about is how to control their own people no matter what it takes (lies, cheat, manipulate, corruption...) to make them (people) believe that there's only one PERFECT person in the word --is their leader!
    • Mark F  •  4 mths ago
      On three I want everyone to pretend to cry.
      • beanie 4 mths ago
        Not one of those mourners looked like they were really crying. It all looked so fake.
      • Micah S 4 mths ago
        It was the same 5 people in different outfits.
      • Kevin C 4 mths ago
        Cry or die,,,
    • A different Bill  •  4 mths ago
      Now that he's dead, North Koreans are wondering "who will starve us now"...
      • Dre 4 mths ago
        lmfao
      • justin 4 mths ago
        his son of course...
      • john m 4 mths ago
        The little fat boy....
    • B C  •  4 mths ago
      I'll assume that N. Korea is using a bootleg copy of Photoshop.
      • Vlad the Inhaler 4 mths ago
        They get their software from Pirate Bay.
      • Micah S 4 mths ago
        I wouldn't be surprised if Kim Jong Il claimed that he invented photoshop.
      • TomTom 4 mths ago
        now thats funny
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 mths ago
      I am surprised they did not change the Lincoln Continental into a N.Kia
    • Tex  •  Seattle, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      My favorite part is that the communist leader who hated on the US so much went to his final resting place in a Lincoln.
      • Michael 4 mths ago
        I personally would have preferred to go in a Volkswagon, more class than Licoln or on the back of a Kawasaki than a Harley, that dead Korean has got no class
      • Erika 4 mths ago
        To Tex, your post gave me a laugh! :)
      • Reality 4 mths ago
        Kinda like Cuba, how do they keep em' running...jeese what year is that monster of a Lincoln?
    • Bill M  •  Venice, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Well here it is folks - it finally happened -- A Cold day in Hell
    • TheW  •  Fort Myers, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      "digitally eliminated". In North Korea that means their fingers were chopped off!
    • gregg  •  Goochland, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      this guys kid, that is taking over, looks like a Korean Eric Cartman from Southpark. He looks fat and spoiled rotten.
    • michael  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      It boggles the mind, how an entire nation of people can be essentially brainwashed for so many decades by their 'glorious leader.' Like an extended version of the Twilight Zone.
    • Kevin C  •  4 mths ago
      I haven't seen this much fake crying since my mother-in-law's funeral.
    • jack  •  4 mths ago
      Oh my God! Next, you'll be telling me they airbrush the pimples off of swimsuit models' butts!
    • sittin duck  •  Charlotte, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      if they could just photoshop out our $15T nat'l debt...THAT would be worth reporting.
    • q  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Does anyone else find it funny that a HOT ROD LINCOLN carried this joker to the grave? roflmao
    • THYSITONMES 1st INTERNET ...  •  Zelienople, Pennsylvania  •  4 mths ago
      who cares...his son looks like gumby...
    • Cavan  •  4 mths ago
      I bet those people are dead! At that point no matter how hard they faked cry wouldn't save them........
    • Liberals hate the USA  •  4 mths ago
      Wow. If only the media watched Washington's budget with such scrutiny.
    • Rick  •  Brookfield, Wisconsin  •  4 mths ago
      They photoshopped the garbage truck to look like a hearse?
    • Kem  •  4 mths ago
      The dawdlers were probably executed for messing up the picture...wonder if the photographer getting some of that?
    • Dr. Feelgood  •  Arcadia, California  •  4 mths ago
      North Koreans and Scientologist have so much in common.
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