Kim Jong Il doesn’t drive over a straw mat
One day Kim Jong Il came across a straw mat in the road with some wet rice on it. Instead of having his limousine drive over it, he figured some farmers were, for some reason, drying rice in the road, and in great kindness decided to move it instead. This is the usual tripe about how great the Dear Leader is, but it’s telling that the farmers decided to dry their rice in the road — the absence of traffic is a clue into how desolate the DPRK can be.