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Kim Captures Female Pilots... On Camera

Kim Captures Female Pilots... On Camera

Kim Jong-Un is frequently caught on camera instructing his people in how they can better carry out their jobs, but on a recent visit to an airfield he got behind the camera himself.

The North Korean leader spoke to two female pilots after they took part in a flight drill and congratulated them on their performance.

"I am very satisfied and pleased to see the emergence of excellent pursuit airwomen and their brave flight in a matter of just a few months after I gave an instruction to train them," he said about Jo Kum Hyang and Rim Sol.

State news agency KCNA added that Mr Kim concluded it was "highly praiseworthy for young girls to pilot a pursuit plane alone - a job hard even for a man".

Snapping the pair in a photo, he told them their parents should be proud of them and ordered that the photographs be sent to their families.

The visit came as the highly-militaristic state, which is still technically at war with its neighbour South Korea, condemned the US as a human rights "tundra" where racial discrimination is allowed to flourish.

A foreign ministry spokesman mocked the idea of "rule of law" in America after violent protests erupted following the grand jury decision not to indict a police officer over the shooting dead of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.

"This is clear proof of the real picture of the US as a tundra of human rights, where extreme racial discrimination acts are openly practised," he said.

A strongly-worded UN resolution criticised North Korea last week over its human rights abuses - which were described as "without parallel in the contemporary world" in a recent report.

Earlier this week, Mr Kim toured a museum dedicated to alleged atrocities by US forces during the 1950-53 Korean War, saying they were like "cannibals seeking pleasure in slaughter".