North Korea has released rare footage of the secretive nation’s elite special forces as they perform a bizarre routine.
In the clip, individuals can be seen training in groups where they perform various tasks including running in their uniform, simulating combat, practising martial arts, and disturbingly placing someone’s hand over a pile of bricks for another person to take a pickaxe to in order to break the bricks.
Many people were left shocked by the video clips, which shows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un celebrating with the group.
A lot of social media users took to the internet to share their own reactions to the footage, with one person writing on Reddit: “Holy crap I watched again, how did they think of doing that? Punishment or to show that the guy is tough?”
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Another said: “My favorite is the pick axe to the hand which then crushes bricks.”
A third user joked: “All of that just to die from a flying lunchbox with 4 propellers.”
And a fourth added: “How do the karate chops stop grenades and mortars lol.”
North Korea made headlines last year when the country responded to President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ‘Golden Dome’.
The US defense system was revealed to be in the works in 2025, which is seemingly inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.
Trump announced that the US would be getting its own version, vowing that this would knock all missiles out of the sky with the success rate being ‘very close to 100%’.
But it seems like North Korea wasn’t too impressed by the news as the nation described the plans as being a ‘threatening initiative’ rather than a defense measure, calling it ‘the largest arms buildup plan in history’.
In the memorandum, the nation went on to claim that the Golden Dome threatens the entire global security environment, adding that the US has been ‘hell-bent on the moves to militarize outer space’.
The statement continued: “The US plan for building a new missile defense system is the root cause of sparking off a global nuclear and space arms race by stimulating the security concerns of nuclear weapons states and turning outer space into a potential nuclear war field.”
North Korea has outright opposed what it calls ‘the United States’ criminal ambition to use outer space for hegemonic purposes’.
The nation added: “We will continue to exercise our sovereign right to defend our strategic security interests and ensure regional peace and security.”