I also don't think that she's approving anything by posing with statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in the background. I honestly don't think she's giving it much thought. And Russia is approaching North Korea from what I read in the papers in the last couple of months and that's a good thing imo. It's not good to have North Korea totally isolated.It doesn't bother me either way. My understanding is statues of and tributes to and photos of these two are literally everywhere there, it is understandable that the skaters would want to pose by something authentic/unique to the experience of being there if that makes sense. I don't take this as approval of these leaders any more than someone posing by what remains of the Berlin Wall is approving of the wall. To me though her comments on the pictures are a bit more perplexing... but either way her politics or views don't impact my opinion of her skating, so it's all good to me.
But to me there's a huge difference between posing in front of the remains of the Berlin Wall or posing in front of two dead dictators. The first memorial should make us think about the errors of the past and the second praises the past and present.
& I posed too no matter what I personally think of 1917





