North Korea's Propaganda

This is used to teach their citizens about why America is bad and that they should be happy living in North Korea. This is used to show other countries as worse than North Korea, making its citizens believe that it is simply how life goes, and there are flaws no matter where you live. While this seems negative, something very similar is happening in America. Many North Koreans are lead to believe that Americans are bad and view them from a negative viewpoint, but the same is done from the other side leaving many Americans thinking the North Koreans are bad, and have negatives views of

Propaganda, though not the most effective war time strategy, allows people to come together as one to contribute to the success of the country as a whole. However with this idea, there is also the idea that they are not whole truths being told by governments within countries. Propaganda is a form of a lie seen in both North Korea in the book Escape from Camp 14, and in one of the world’s darkest times, World War II; the world allows these lies to surface due to the fact that they do no outwardly hurt another race.

There has been recent news about recent threats that North Korea is imposing on America. Emily Tillett, author of the article, speaks of Donald Trumps orders to prepare a fight against NK. The purpose of the article is to persuade the audience, American citizens, to trust Trumps decisions in going against NK. This is done with the use of rhetorical devices, such as appeal to ethos and simple/impacting diction.

In order to brainwash the masses, the North Korean government publicizes nationalist mottos everywhere throughout the nation. Demick describes

Such principles that resonate with many of the citizens include the fact that Goldstein is an enemy of Big Brother, their leader. Therefore, The Party naturally engages their citizens into an activity that directs hate towards Goldstein in which, “the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, has flashed onto the screen” (11) which then prompts a public backlash against him. This scenario in which propaganda is used to alter the public’s mindset is also frequently seen in North Korea’s government. The government along with North Korea’s leader aim to “create an image of god like proportions about themselves by controlling the information that their citizens have about them, and using their own selected media to sway the people’s thoughts and opinions” (Martinez). In order to fulfill these requirements, North Korea has a history of brainwashing their citizens by providing them false information. These tactics include dealing with many negative situations that involve their government.

Movies have become a powerful form of media used to sway a large audience. Not only is a story told to the viewer, but an overall message is also portrayed through film as well. So it is no wonder that in North Korea, the usage of movies to create propaganda films in order to project a certain view of their country towards their people. The strengthened usage of film as propaganda could be see after Kim Jong Il moved the to the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Korean Worker’s Party in 1966 and eventually lead him to become director of the Motion Picture and Arts Division in 1970 (Armstrong, 210). Kim Jong Il was known to have an affinity for arts and film and in a county with such strong influence with propaganda, Kim knew that these position would propel the message and powers of the leaders.

Kim Jong Un’s iron fist extends to all domains of the North Korean life. In the digital realm, the restricted intranet serves as a propaganda echo chamber, where only a select few get access to the universal internet that we all use all use every day, however most of these individuals are merely part of a hacking elite look for expanding the military capabilities on North Korea via the digital battlefront. In the social world, a citizen's social class will determine their fate through their education and job opportunities, ensuring only the most loyal of citizens will be able to sustain a well providing job, but no matter what job is at stake, it all must serve the wishes of the Kim Regime. The power of the Kim Regime extends outwards into dozens of outside countries, where laborers are forced to work indefinitely in cruel conditions, however recent moves by the Trump administration may put change North Korea’s ability to exploit the labor. In addition to immense human rights violations of the state-sponsored labor, nothing quite compares to the Nazi-esque labor camps where any citizen will get sent to if they for even the most minor of criticisms of the government. Finally, North Korea continuously creates

As early as kindergarten North Korean children are taught to be hostile towards America and its beliefs. In the kindergarten classrooms students use rifles and bayonets as they attack a poster of a U.S. solider with a beaked nose and straw-colored hair. North Korean students are taught that their country has two main enemies: the Japanese and the United States. There are many poster and activities that encourage extreme hate towards our country, some posters encourage wiping out the United States all together. They are also taught that the United States started the war and that split their country in two.

North Korea has been a topic of discussion over the past few years. Their government is established to brainwash and only give to the higher party. This article states “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea, defines itself as a democratic republic, but it functions as a single-party dictatorship under the leadership of the military.”(Gale 1) The article shows that they brainwash their citizens, by telling its

Perception affects what we know about the rivalry between the US and North Korea based on our five senses. I got the information about North Korea through sight, and interpreted it as a dangerous situation and as something that I should be scared of. Though we may not be able to physically see, feel, hear, smell, or taste the missiles and weapons, we see on the news what is happening. We can watch and hear what each leader says about the other, and the steps they are taking to respond. Because we are not given 100% of the information about what is happening, we use expectations of perception in order to fill in the gaps. An example would be that we do not know exactly when North Korea will have a missile that could hit the US. Because of this,

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has made audacious claims alluding to the power and potential of the country’s nuclear programme. The United State has yet to confirm the validity of these claims, but the US intelligence has decided to air on the side of caution; our country is preparing for a nuclear strike. The most dangerous thing about Kim Jong-un’s claims is the details. A number of tests conducted, the type of bombs being tested, the material being used to manufacture these bombs, and whether or not North Korean intelligence has achieved miniaturization are all very important factors in the rush to defend our country against these threats. If the country has conducted multiple tests, it’s had more opportunities to refine its weapon; if the bombs are hydrogen bombs, they are far more powerful; if uranium is the nuclear reactant being used, North Korea can make many many more bombs than before; if they have been able to miniaturize a bomb small enough to fit on a missile, they can launch an attack on US soil. Kim Jong-un has claimed for all of these to be true, but the US is a strong, independent country, and any attack will be detected early on and met with an attack just as strong if

SAN FRANCISCO - Our investigators recently uncovered a clandestine operation run by the United States government that is being used to create a facade of strength and power. The United States government had recently been engaged in a war with North Korea that the United States was steadily losing. Our analyzers recently discovered that the North Koreans had been planning to let fly their secret weapon: a death day missile that would kill 90% of the entire population of the United States, and that would release radiation across the entire western hemisphere of the globe. However, twenty days before the weapon was to be released, the skilled laborers crafting the missile itself saw a colleague fall asleep and hit his head on

At the onset of the Cold War, between the United States and the Soviet Union, the people of Korea could not have foreseen the critical role their relatively small nation would play in world affairs over proceeding generations. The separation and subsequent rise of the North Korean state has given rise to, what is widely considered the most oppressive regime in modern history. This regime, unfortunately, has managed to gain control of some of the most destructive weaponry known to humanity. The people of North Korea are captives to the imaginations of its dictatorial leadership and unless the great efforts for reform receive pressure from without or within,

The Washington Post article outlines the perceived collective viewpoint regarding the perception of North Korea by the world and the conflict with how North Korea sees itself. The article quotes multiple examples of world leaders demeaning North Korea and their leader, Kim Jong Un, by commonly referencing them as spoiled and misbehaving children. The viewpoint of North Korea is drastically different as they see their country and leadership as a contemporary, relevant and forceful world power but who appear to be desperate for respect and recognized legitimacy. Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is a frequently quoted and consulted expert in geopolitics, with emphasis on nuclear nonproliferation, implying his viewpoint will always be focused on the nonproliferation

Ideology can be looked at different perspectives of the way people think about it. Some people think that ideology is bad, while some people think it is good. Ideology takes a very harmful way in Christianity; Pope Francis explains to Christians that ideology drives away the church and the people. In his perspective of mind, ideology is a “serious illness.”(Dolan) In some other places such as North Korea, ideology is a “dangerous belief system.” North Koreans Ideology is most commonly referred as “Juche,” this ideology is harmful to people because most people would like to praise people who do good things, but in North Korea people have to pray to a dictator who is capable of killing, torturing, and murdering his own people.