Kim Jong-un Riding a Horse

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Kim Jong-un Riding a Horse refers to photoshoot involving North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un riding a white horse in the snowy area of Mount Paektu. The images were shared to Twitter in October 15th and inspired Photoshop edits and various captions. Many users compared the images to a similar Vladimir Putin photoshoot.

Origin

On October 15th, 2019, AFP world news provider Tweeted photographs of Kim Jong-un riding a horse captioned, "North Korean state media KCNA releases photos of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on Mount Paektu" (shown below). The tweet gained over 5,400 likes and 160 retweets in a day.

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On October 15th, 2019, The images inspired various captions by Twitter users. Twitter user @Trillburne^[3] captioned one image "tfw you yearn to breath the cool alpine air on sacred Paektu Mountain" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 725 likes and 70 retweets in a day.

That same day, Twitter user @crispybear1^[1] commented "Thank god he hasn't gone full Putin and gone topless" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 1,300 likes and 90 retweets in a day. Many people began photoshopping Putin in the the images of Kim Jong-un. The next day, Twitter user @ClixWizard^[2] tweeted, "Which horseman of the apocalypse is he again?" to which Twitter user @Orange_Luc replied "Famine fits the best" (shown below, right).

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