Why are so many North Koreans crying in pictures with Kim Jong-Un

There are many things the rest of the world just doesn’t understand about North Korea.

The rogue nation celebrates rocket launches and nuclear testing like no other, and Kim Jong Un antagonizes other world leaders with just the threat of a nuclear missile.

But the one thing Business Insider points out, is in a lot of pictures with the dictator, his subjects look like they’ve been moved to tears.

So why are all of these North Koreans crying just by being in the presence of one of the most unpredictable people?

A professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hamburg says the emotion is part of a cult of personality.

Yvonne Schulz Zinda said, "The Kim rulers are exaggerated, almost godlike perceived." And according to Zinda, it all started with Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung.

And she goes on to say it’s all part of the North Korean legacy of public displays of grief and emotion.