PHOTOSHOP HOAXES

North Korea Restores Order to Kim Funeral With Photoshop

The funeral procession for Kim Jong-Il was held with military precision and when a handful of dawdlers messed up those regimented lines, they were eliminated. From the photo. The photo released by the North Korea's state news agency and transmitted by the Germany-based European Pressphoto Agency is slightly different from a photo taken at nearly the identical moment and released by Japanese agency Kyodo News.

In the photo, the shadow cast by Mr Kim’s calves runs in a different direction to the shadow cast by the soldiers either side of him, the Times pointed out. In addition, a black line running along the stand on which the soldiers are positioned mysteriously vanishes on either side of Mr Kim – suggesting his picture may have been superimposed onto the image...