Why Do North Korean Generals Have So Many Medals?
North Korea’s military is famous for its generals covered in medals—but why so many in peacetime? Surprisingly, even inanimate objects in North Korea can be awarded medals. In this video, we explore the story of a pneumatic hammer named a Hero of Labor and a ginkgo tree honored as a Hero of the Republic.
Discover how the tradition of wearing family medals and the government’s use of awards to create distractions contribute to this unusual phenomenon. Watch now to uncover the fascinating and bizarre reasons behind North Korea’s medal obsession!








Same like pakistan army lost against Afghanistan and all other country still they wear many medals
North Korea Took the Soviet tradition of handing out medals like candy, and then added pants.
Everything we know about north Korea is told to us by our governments. We now know our governments lie to us all the time about Iraq, Iran, Israel, Libya, Syria, Russia and China to name a few well known cases so why does anyone think what they've told us about Korea is correct.
It's like a bullet-proof vest.
The only person with that many medals or little less that deserves it, is Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков)
If it was not for him the russians would've fallen to fascist control also his title was second only to Joseph Stalin.
The USA war puppets have a lot of medals but have not won a war lately
Perhaps Iraq war but that's it
US citizens always looking into others while being full of crap at home
The US should lay magnetic mines, then when these medal adorned North Koreans attack….
Reminds me of those turtles covered in barnacles…..
Gay!!!! It's all about the bling!!!
They dont use ribbon