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Tourist in North Korea films creepy morning song ‘Where are you, Dear General’. Picture: AP
JUST when you thought North Korea couldn’t get any weirder, you learn this.
The North Korean government wakes up the citizens of its capital, Pyongyang, every morning by playing a song throughout the city over loudspeakers. And the song is quite possibly the creepiest thing you’ll ever hear.
Austrian tourist Helmut Uttenthaler has captured the eerie early morning wake up call, a song titled “Where Are You, Dear General”, and shared it online so we can all be frightened together.
If it reminds you of a famous dystopian novel, you’re not alone.
“This song sounds like something you’d hear in the world of 1984 by Orwell,” one commenter on YouTube wrote.
“North Korea is like something out of dystopian thriller movie. Except it’s REAL,” another said.
Others have suggested it strikes a disturbing resemblance to the X-Files theme song.
“Creepiest thing I have ever heard other than the X-files song,” a listener commented on YouTube.
Either way, it’s going to be hard getting to sleep tonight.