The water was white where his tail beat it and three-quarters of his body was clear above the water when the rope came taut, shivered, and then snapped.
Such materialist tastes, however incongruous in a country where more than a quarter of young children are chronically malnourished, appear to reflect a changing reality in North Korea.
Some 60,000 people use the service each day, and the $156 billion worth of goods moved through the tunnel each year is believed to account for more than a quarter of all trade between the UK and mainland Europe.
The companies that own these towers are part of the Rural Wireless Association who say a quarter of their members buy Huawei because it's far cheaper and say it would cost up to $1 billion to replace.
This became an issue for the league back in 2016 when Colin Kaepernick, who was then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand for the anthem.
More than a quarter of the entire world's population is said to log on to Facebook every month and it's grown to have 3.2 billion users in just 15 years.