WATCH: CNN’s Will Ripley Captures Eerie Morning Ritual in North Korea

6:00AM in Pyongyang, North Korea. Time for your daily dose of revolutionary music! pic.twitter.com/pViXjlVGrU

— Will Ripley (@willripleyCNN) April 26, 2017

CNN international correspondent Will Ripley posted a video to Twitter Wednesday capturing an eerie morning ritual in North Korea.

Ripley, who is based in Tokyo but currently reporting from inside North Korea, filmed the daily wake up call blasted through speakers every morning at 6 a.m. in Pyongyang.

Ripley scans over the city with his phone as the creepy “revolutionary music” plays, serving as an ominous morning alarm for people in the capital city.

The video comes as tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, with leadership in Pyongyang threatening to sink the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier conducting tactical drills in the Pacific Ocean.

Military posturing from the hermit kingdom has been accompanied by a number of recent arrests of American citizens. Tony Kim, a Korean-American academic teaching at Pyongyang University, was arrested Saturday as he tried to leave the country with his wife. He was the third American citizen arrested by North Korea in the last 16 months.

[image via screengrab]

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