[Watch] Hollywood Effect To North Korea Missile Launch: Sporting Sunglasses, Kim Jong-Un Walks In Slow Motion…

New Delhi: Missile tests by North Korea are always watched closely by Western powers.

So when Pyongyang announced the launch of its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday, the world, as usual, took notice.

But this time it was for a different reason: the way the launch was broadcast on state-run television, which looked like a Hollywood action movie.

In scenes reminiscent of Top Gun, the 1983 blockbuster movie The Right Stuff and similar Hollywood action flicks, where the hero walks away from a hangar, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, wearing a shiny leather jacket popular with aviators and sunglasses, is shown walking away from a hangar, flanked by generals, as they prepare for the launch of the Hwasong-17 missile.

The giant missile is seen behind them, slowly emerging from its hangar on way to the launchpad.

In Hollywood-style special effects, there are slow motion shots of Kim with dramatic music playing in the background. Kim checks his watch, takes off his sunglasses and gives the nod to his generals for the launch.

A dramatic countdown scene shows soldiers shouting “Fire!” as the button is pressed. Shots of the missile leaving the launchpad is shown multiple times. There are also top shots of the missile, relayed by embedded cameras, rising into the atmosphere.

Kim’s father Kim Jong Il was a film buff who ordered the kidnapping of a South Korean film director and an actress in 1978 to help the North’s film industry grow.

Watching overseas content and films is banned in North Korea and anyone caught indulging in it is punished.

Video courtesy: The Sun