SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA —
A North Korean soldier clad in a super-tight blue outfit in a state media photograph has generated a buzz on social media, with some calling him “a superhero,” “a captain DPRK,” or “a rocket man.”
He was amongst practically 30 troopers who posed for a photograph with chief Kim Jong Un throughout an exhibition of weapons techniques on Monday. North Korea printed photographs of the occasion the next day.
All of them largely wore olive inexperienced uniforms, the commonest colour for North Korean army uniforms. Solely two of them wore totally different colours – the one within the blue outfit and the opposite in a navy-blue uniform, which is not that uncommon. Kim wore a darkish swimsuit.
Some Twitter customers in South Korea, the U.S. and elsewhere joked about his look, saying he seems to be like a “human cannon ball,” or the North Korean equal of Captain America.
Others referred to as him a “superhero,” a “captain DPRK,” the official acronym for North Korea, a “rocket man,” or a member of (non-existent) North Korean area forces.
North Korean state media did not establish the person. However Jeffrey Lewis, an knowledgeable at Middlebury Institute of Worldwide Research at Monterey, tweeted that “It appears he is the parachutist.”
Different North Korean photographs confirmed Kim watching a bunch of jets flying in a formation throughout an air present forward of the exhibition. The official Korean Central Information Company stated a “high notch parachutist confirmed touchdown abilities, fluttering pink get together flag within the (October) sky” earlier than the exhibition’s opening ceremony.
Pictures of an earlier air present in North Korea confirmed parachutists carrying related blue tight outfits.
