People terrified after learning what is played over loudspeakers at 6am every day in North Korea

For almost two decades, residents of a North Korean city have experienced an ‘eerie’ wake-up call blaring through its streets.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, situated in East Asia, is a totalitarian dictatorship.

According to Amnesty International, the country has one of the world’s worst human rights records, having also been condemned by the United Nations and Freedom House.

The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu Bloodline, have ruled the country since 1948 as ‘supreme leaders’.

Three years before the second supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong II’s death in 2011, a blaring noise began echoing across the country’s capital city, Pyongyang.

Every morning at 6am, a ‘creepy’ tune now blasts out across the sprawling city, forged from concrete, bronze and marble.

Watch the daily moment below:

This mysterious sound was once featured in the Channel 5 show Michael Palin In North Korea.

Described by the Monty Python actor as ‘the most peculiar wake-up call’, the sound has recently been doing the rounds again on social media.

“I thought it was just incidental post-production music,” wrote one YouTube user after hearing the sound.

“But when you learn that it's being played through a sound-system throughout the city it becomes creepy. It takes on a bizarre life of its own. There's also something weirdly hypnotic about it to”

A second said: “Eerie. Sounds like a perfect soundtrack for a strange dystopian land, played throughout the city like that creates a fitting vibe.”

“It seems like a song that would play if you walk around in a foggy forest under the watchful eye of a mystical predator creature,” another penned.

Meanwhile, a TikTok user wrote: “This is the same exact vibe I get in my dreams.”

People have been having their say on the North Korean music (KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

“That’s quite creepy imagine having sleep paralysis and this is playing,” someone else added.

If this is the first time you’re being introduced to the bizarre wake-up call then here’s everything you you need to know.

The song that blares out every morning from the speakers of the Pyongyang Railway Station is called ‘Where Are You, Dear General?’

It’s understood the six-minute 30-second track could have potentially been composed by Kim Jong II in 1971, as part of the A True Daughter of the Party opera.

It's believed the music first started blaring in 2008 (Feng Li/Getty Images)

In the opera, an army nurse called Kang Yeon-ok uses the moment to express her lifelong dream of meeting Kim II Sung, Kim Jong II’s father and ‘founder’ of North Korea.

Every morning at 6am since around 2008, a cover of the song by the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble echoes through Pyongyang.

‘Where Are You, Dear General?’ therefore serves as an alarm clock of sorts, with some claiming it is ‘heavily distorted and barely recognizable’ from its original penning.

The electric ballad is also sometimes broadcast on North Korean television, according to NK News.

You’ve really got to hear it to believe it.