Personal Narrative: My Experience With North Korea

Living in the dust bowl, fighting poverty and escaping North Korea are all really hard challenges to overcome.In the documentary of the dust bowl the people have a man vs nature conflict. Fighting poverty is a never ending cycle that people try to solve. The last article “Escaping North Korea” is about a girl (Yeomni Park) living through the troubles of North Korea and eventually escaping. Escaping North Korea is the hardest challenge to overcome for several reasons.

Have you ever wondered if these three sources had any dystopian characteristics in them? The first on that will be talk about is how a figure or concept is worship by the citizens. Next society is an allusion of a perfect utopian world. Finally, the citizens of the dystopian society live in constant fear for the outside world. That citizens are always being watched , tricked into thinking they live in a perfect world and a figure is worship by them.

Debates have been swirling around the international community over North Korea’s recent actions considered to be “Crimes against humanity” (Pearson, Hanna, and Park). When did North Korea start to have these issues and who is behind the crimes arguably equal to that of Nazi Germany? Was it during the reign of Kim ll-sung or Kim Jong-il? Arguments can be made that the crimes did start under the reign of these two leaders, but the real culprit behind the crimes against humanity is Kim Jong-un the current supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

North Korea appears on the international stage as a country existing beyond the world we all know. It isolates its citizens from the rest of international community and does not obey any rules determined by international law, but requires respect and recognition. Moreover, North Korea is one of the countries that remains aggressive towards its neighbors and applies various terrorist techniques, i.e. illegal contraband, political terror and mass abductions of other countries’ citizens in its foreign policy. The reasons for which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) behaves so unpredictably and irrationally are diversified. First of all, the DPRK as a country is managed very irrationally – regimes of Kim Il-sung and

In every world publication they sent out, they recall a country that is successful and coming together as one. Stating that the citizens never suffer from famine or poverty and that citizens would sacrifice themselves for their leader(10 most censored Countries (2006). However, everyone knows that this is false and that the country's people are in trouble. One of North Korea's recent lie from within the country is the reconciliation of the Munitions Train explosion. The government and police force reported that the citizens displayed “spirt of guarding the leader with their very lives.” Everyone in the proximity tried to save the leaders posters and reminders before they searched for their families or even saving household goods.(10 most censored Countries (2015) However, they completely skipped over the thousands of citizens injured, the 150 plus citizens killed and the amount of damage the town took. The government took a major event in the country and turned it into something about the leader, leaving people wondering about the damage and living situation citizens were left in.

The fundamental freedoms are a rule that gives people the right to speech, association, assembly, religion and movement. The freedom of movement is the right to travel freely and lawfully within a country or to leave or enter at any time, although this may be restricted under certain circumstances. Within Australia, the freedom of movement is protected as you can freely travel anywhere you want unless you are a possible threat to Australia or where ever you want to travel. This freedom is protected in Australia but within other countries, such as North Korea, this freedom is violated.

The negotiations talking on the nuclear threaten and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula has recently shaped the agenda of North Korean system of international relations, thus affecting the patterns of foreign policy of the DPRK. This issue has gained such a priority to lead to the establishment of the 6PT experiment, thus proving to stand at the core of the debate on the stability and safety debate in the Northeast Asia region.

The inadequate leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, is a merciless dictator who takes away his country's rights. Living conditions for the trapped people in North Korea are poverty-stricken and unfair. The natives to the country are being deceived of the image of what life is like, especially outside the borders of North Korea. This is the reason the United States. must take charge with the dispute in North Korea.

Everyday Life in North Korea is mainly about how the people of North Korea are trying to adapt to life after the Japanese rule. Most importantly they had three reforms that attempted to assist with the adaptation after Japanese rule. One of which was the reform over land. This reform was to reassign the land that the Japanese had previously divided. The peasant people who were the most vocal over their disagreement over previous land laws pushed the reform. With new authority over their lives the people became very satisfied with life in general and also happy with the direction the authority was taking the peopl and their country. I would like to know if the people are still satisfied with the division of land after the reform or if some people

Hyeonseo Lee gave a presentation on TED Talk entitled, “My Escape from North Korea”, summarizing about her life in North Korea. She was born and raised there and sing patriotic songs. All the history books told her that North Korea was the best country in the world. As she got older, a famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990’s. Although, she never experienced starvation, she witnessed the events first hand. This was the pushing point for Hyeonseo, who decided to leave North Korea. Due to China and North Korea’s stringent border policies and the Chinese government immigration policy, the life of a North Korean refugee is challenging and extremely risky. They risk being deported back to the very country that they escaped from. There are reports and stories about the violation of human rights and labor camps in North Korea. She would live in China for ten years before moving to South Korea. Hyeonseo was forced to help her family escape from North Korea. The regime caught Hyeonseo for sending money to her family. Lee’s family to be relocated by the order of the North Korean government. She needed to smuggle them through China to a South Korean embassy in Laos. Unfortunately, Hyeonseo Lee’s story won’t be the last we hear about the abysmal conditions in North Korea. There are, potentially millions more, stories detailing the humanitarian disaster in the country and we must take steps to prepare for the eventual collapse of the country.

North Korea has become a huge issue for itself, and the rest of the world. I have examples of many possible solutions and why they will or won't work, that I want all of you gathered here to hear, but most importantly, I hope the president is watching this through their screen and truly listening. Before I start this, I would like to introduce myself. I'm a professor in the Center for Korean Research program at Columbia University. I have spent my life trying to fix the puzzle that is communist North Korea.

The situation for the people of North Korea is growing more desperate every day due to the conditions the government has put on it’s people. From famine to imprisonment and concentration camps there is unmistakeable misery. North Korea needs to have intervention from other countries to assist their people with human rights reform. Also South Korea has challenged North Korea to prove it does not violate human rights of its citizens. “For starters, there's a resurgent famine driven by gross government mismanagement that threatens millions of lives, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners languish in concentration camps, and an estimated half-million refugees remain in hiding from forced repatriation that often results in torture and execution” (Hong). In this quote Hong explains that these people needed help because they feel threatened, so they are scared for what will happen next. Hong’s opinion that, North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or more commonly known as North Korea, is one of the most secretive and intriguing nations of the world. In a time of saturated globalization and continuous exchanges of culture and information, little is known about the northern part of the Korean peninsula. Yet even with this veil of secrecy, it continues to gain our attention. Within North Korea, there have been numerous incidents that have brought concern within the global community. Famine, corruption, political prison camps, and threats of nuclear usage are just a few of the marks on the list of its immoralities. This country has been rightly scrutinized and ridiculed for its actions over the duration of its development, but what is the reasoning

Isolated, underdeveloped, and strictly controlled by a regime, North Korea stands as the only totalitarian state to have survived a change in leadership (Behind the Wall…, 2012). North Korea maintains their control and power over the people through many different techniques: stranglehold on information, secret police, concentration camps, and control of the country’s economy. However there is one other factor that drives great fear into its people and the world; their development of nuclear weapons along with their propaganda techniques. On March 3rd, 2016, just last Thursday, North Korea under the direct order of Kim Jong Un, “fired short-range projectiles into the sea” to express their anger over the recent adoption of harsh U.N. sanctions (North Korea makes…, 2016). The following day, the Supreme leader “ordered his military on standby for nuclear strikes at any time” in order to “ramp-up propaganda push in the face of what it portrays as an effort by South Korea and the U.S to overthrow its leadership” (North Korea makes…, 2016). All these threats of nuclear weapons and the North Korea’s slay approach on launching their bombs have created a uproar throughout the world.

Lastly, let’s talk about the people of North Korea. First of, they can’t even leave the country without their leaders assurance, Kim Jong Un does everything in his power to keep his people trapped in his country, you can’t even leave for a different part of the country without a good reason, also relocating hundreds of thousands to less favorable parts as a form of punishment and political persecution. The people have no freedom of speech, any report of criticism of Kim Jong Un is enough to make you and your family disappear from society and end up in a political prison camp, the only source of news in the country comes from Kim Jong Un and his small circle of people often praising Kim as some sort of god to the people. There is no internet access and landlines and mobile phones cannot make international calls, outside information is so critical to the people that the government spends so much of its time and money keeping it away from