North Korean soldier in blue generates buzz on social media

SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean worker clad successful a super-tight bluish outfit successful a authorities media photograph has generated a buzz connected societal media, with immoderate calling him “a superhero,” “a skipper DPRK,” oregon “a rocket man.”

He was among astir 30 soldiers who posed for a photograph with person Kim Jong Un during an accumulation of weapons systems connected Monday. North Korea published photos of the lawsuit the pursuing day.

They each mostly wore olive greenish uniforms, the astir communal colour for North Korean subject uniforms. Only 2 of them wore antithetic colors — the 1 successful the bluish outfit and the different successful a navy-blue uniform, which isn’t that unusual. Kim wore a acheronian suit.

Some Twitter users successful South Korea, the U.S. and elsewhere joked astir his appearance, saying helium looks similar a “human cannon ball,” oregon the North Korean equivalent of Captain America.

Others called him a “superhero,” a “captain DPRK,” the authoritative acronym for North Korea, a “rocket man,” oregon a subordinate of (non-existent) North Korean abstraction forces.

North Korean authorities media didn’t place the man. But Jeffrey Lewis, an adept astatine Middlebury Institute of International Studies astatine Monterey, tweeted that “It seems he’s the parachutist.”

Other North Korean photos showed Kim watching a radical of jets flying successful a enactment during an aerial amusement up of the exhibition. The authoritative Korean Central News Agency said a “top notch parachutist showed landing skills, fluttering reddish enactment emblem successful the (October) sky” earlier the exhibition’s opening ceremony.

Photos of an earlier aerial amusement successful North Korea showed parachutists wearing akin bluish choky outfits.