- Feb 22, 2007
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If you have netflix streaming I highly recommend the national geographic episode "inside north korea" . It was made in 2006, so not all that old. NK had allowed a foreign eye surgeon to enter the country to treat people with blindness. The journalist used that to go with the doctor and said they were going to document the doctors work. They had to smuggle in some cameras and were escorted everywhere they went by several people called minders.
I knew the country was bad and under the rule of a dictator but what I pictured wasn't like what I saw. It is a country I can't imagine living in. Saddam was bad in Iraq but Kim Jon makes him look like a choir boy. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere there are only posters , statues, paintings of Kim Jon, nothing else can be displayed. If you go to a library the only books are books written by Kim Jon. Children starving while Kim Jon lives off imported expensive food. I was expecting to see some sort of disapproval of the man, some type of hatred for what he was doing. Even if it was just a hint of it. Instead I saw something very different. They worship the man, and not from fear but because they truly love him . They believe the man is a god, that everything he does to them is for their own good.
I couldn't believe it when I saw a woman begin talking about Kim Jon, and how she wished she could see again to look on the face of her glorious leader and she started to tear up talking about him and everyone in the room started to cry , even the kids talking about how great he is.
It was like a Jim Jones cult but on a countrywide scale. I thought the people were oppressed and wanting change but from what I saw what they want is whatever Kim Jon gives them. I really think they are willing to die for the man after seeing the documentary. He keeps a concentration camp for the ones that do get out of line where entire families, including children are executed.
I was really against doing something against NK until I watched that program. About half way through I kept wishing I could get 5 minutes alone with their glorious leader.
I knew the country was bad and under the rule of a dictator but what I pictured wasn't like what I saw. It is a country I can't imagine living in. Saddam was bad in Iraq but Kim Jon makes him look like a choir boy. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere there are only posters , statues, paintings of Kim Jon, nothing else can be displayed. If you go to a library the only books are books written by Kim Jon. Children starving while Kim Jon lives off imported expensive food. I was expecting to see some sort of disapproval of the man, some type of hatred for what he was doing. Even if it was just a hint of it. Instead I saw something very different. They worship the man, and not from fear but because they truly love him . They believe the man is a god, that everything he does to them is for their own good.
I couldn't believe it when I saw a woman begin talking about Kim Jon, and how she wished she could see again to look on the face of her glorious leader and she started to tear up talking about him and everyone in the room started to cry , even the kids talking about how great he is.
It was like a Jim Jones cult but on a countrywide scale. I thought the people were oppressed and wanting change but from what I saw what they want is whatever Kim Jon gives them. I really think they are willing to die for the man after seeing the documentary. He keeps a concentration camp for the ones that do get out of line where entire families, including children are executed.
I was really against doing something against NK until I watched that program. About half way through I kept wishing I could get 5 minutes alone with their glorious leader.
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