Playback serverIf a title won’t play, switch servers.
The World in Images
Season 5 · Episode 87
North Korea’s Endless Tears
0.011mSeptember 24, 2026
At the heart of this image: women in tears, a smiling Kim Jong-un, and the joy of sporting triumph. But this snapshot of the North Korean women’s football team celebrating victory in the Asian Champions League is, above all, a striking example of how sporting emotion can be harnessed for propaganda.
Episodes
- Episode 1Palantir: the marketing of cyberwar
- Episode 2Chongqing: The World's Biggest City
- Episode 3Racism in AI: Beware of the gorillas!
- Episode 4Trump’s 'Fecal' Video: When PR Hits a New Low
- Episode 5The Fake Real Mine Tragedy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Episode 6The legendary wave of Nazaré
- Episode 7Russia: Factory of Fake News
- Episode 8When forgotten peoples disrupt the COPs