Creepy robotic helps Kim Jong-un safe 99% of vote in sham North Korea election
Voters in North Korea were met by a chilling new face at the polls as a humanoid robot was tasked with monitoring the ballot box.
The female-styled machine was spotted looming over citizens during the Supreme People’s Assembly election.
Dressed in a traditional hanbok dress and clutching a bouquet of white flowers, the metallic monitor was filmed guiding voters through a process many critics have slammed as a sham.
Images shared by the Russian embassy in Pyongyang show the bot stationed at a university polling booth, staring blankly with one hand raised in an eerie wave.
Its presence didn’t hurt the results for the nation’s top brass. According to state-run media, the “democracy” worked like clockwork as candidates hand-picked by Kim Jong-un received a staggering 99.93 per cent of the vote.
Official figures claimed an eye-watering 99.99 per cent of the population had cast their ballots by 6pm on Sunday.
The election bot isn’t a one-off. According to Choson Sinbo, a Japan-based site with ties to the regime, the university has developed two specific models named Dojeon and Sujae.
While one is intended to answer questions in university classrooms, the other is reportedly designed to assist in the home-schooling of children as young as one.
Kim Jong-un has been aggressively pushing for a tech revolution in North Korean schools.
Back in 2021, state television aired footage of a smaller, cartoon-like robot sporting a North Korean flag on its chest.
The pint-sized machine was touted as a breakthrough for teaching English, music and maths.
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