The United States And North Korea

They make people believe in things aren’t real just like King Jong Un does to his population. An example in George Orwell book was that 2+2=5, Orwell stated (1949) “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (page 81). This shows how much the government controls you and how they can manipulate the way people think. Just like 1984, North Korea makes the citizens believe things are true when they are clearly to anybody else in the world.The government is very careful with what they let in and out of the

Reading Escape from Camp 14, provided me with a lot of thought provoking insight into some of the most extreme struggles of those living under a dictatorship, who are being denied of basic human rights. This also illustrates how propaganda is used to dispel the seriousness of the situation against North Korea, and to keep the citizens predominantly complacent.

Life in North Korea’s high contrast with life in the United States is marked by nonexistent personal freedoms and harsh punishments. One example of restricted freedom in shown in their leader, Kim Jong-un. He, who they address as Dear Leader, is treated like

Although most governments put positive spins on things, normally, they would at the very least give us a glimpse of the truth. North Korea doesn’t do that. Finally, Demick concludes that The citizens of North  Korea aren't treated the way they should

Hello! I am a PhD candidate from Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University. Since this spring, I have been working on my dissertation tracing the repatriation and identification of American soldiers missing in the Korean War. I am writing this letter to seek your support to my research by learning some stories during your trip to North Korea in 1994.

An impoverished country of more than twenty five million people, North Korea, also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was founded by the revolutionary leader Kim IL Sung after the end of World War II. North Korea began as an independent kingdom for much of its long history. Both North and South Korea were under Japanese control in 1905 until the country was split after the end of World War II. Located in eastern Asia in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, North Korea sits in a strategic location bordering China, Russia, and South Korea. North Korea is slightly larger than the state of Virginia, but slightly smaller than the state of Mississippi and is mostly comprised of large mountains and steep hills separated

The citizens of North Korea are not even allowed to leave their own country, being denied a basic human right, similar to the situation in Oceania. When Winston was traveling to see Julia for the first time in secret in 1984, Winston says that “it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention. For distances of less than a hundred kilometres it was not necessary to get your passport endorsed, but sometimes there were patrols hanging about the railway stations, who examined the papers of any Party member they found there and asked awkward questions” (Orwell 247). The government does this so that they always know exactly what their citizens are doing, controlling their every action. Orwell clearly foresaw this prophecy for the future in this scenario as countries like North Korea are doing the same thing in our modern world.

Of the myriad human rights abuses that are presented by the North Korean regime, the American detainees present a special interest to the United States. North Korea has made a policy of detaining certain American journalists and tourists that enter the state. These detainees may be held for indeterminable amounts of time and face horrid conditions in labor camps (North Korea). The human rights violations involved with these detentions are what draw ire of the United States and many other countries around the globe. To fully understand this policy, North Korea’s history of abductions and the current prisoners’ situations should be examined. With that insight, one can determine that North Korea is detaining Americans for three specific reasons: to promote domestic security, restart international negations, and to gain additional economic capital.

Since 1948, North Korea has become renowned as being a nation that is closed off to any foreign influence. Wanting to cultivate the communist government’s ideology in it’s people, involvement in foreign influence has been strictly prohibited, to the point offenders either being sentenced to a heavy labor camp or punished by death (For Dummies). Now, under the rule of the current Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has slowly begun to loosen its grip on its strict no foreigner policy. While it is highly unadvised by the American government to visit the communist nation, if one desires to go, it is now possible to do so under austere touring perimeters implemented by the North Korean government (Cripps). More

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.” - Ari Fleischer. In this essay, I will be discussing propaganda in North Korea, as well as looking at various propaganda graphics in the country.

Hey! I've been in North Korea for a few weeks now, I have been researching its cultural, political, physical and economic geography. The main down side to the whole trip is that the plane ride took 13 hours. Recently it has been very packed in North Korea its density is normally 61% but lately its extra high because it is near the celebration of Kim Il Sung's Birthday. He was the founder of the Down-With-Imperialism Union. His birthday is on April 15, that is only a few days away.

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

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.

In North Korea there are approximately 24 million or more residents. North Korean believe that their leaders are saints. Kim Jong II was labeled as heaven sent by propagandists. They are suppressed by their country and are instilled in the Juche Ideology. About 154,000 North Koreans are in prison camps, there are six camps surrounded by electrical barbed wire. If you do something that the North Korean government believe is against them, your whole family will serve your punishment with you. In the camps the daily struggles are torture, slave labor, malnutrition and public execution. Approximately forty percent of prisoners die of malnutrition. The internet is unattainable with access only by granted by the government. Reporters that traveled to North Korea had to turn in their mobile phones at the border. The internet is unattainable with access only granted by the government. Items such as a ballpoint pen are considered luxury items to North Koreans. Men don’t know that women menstruate or what it even means until they reach their mid twenties. Marriage is only allowed with in your social class, which is determined by birth. North Koreans do not have much under the totalitarian system. There is no free time and even if they did have free time there is nothing to do for them to enjoy. Girls are not allowed to ride a bicycle, it is considered lascivious.

State media sources are tightly controlled so as to prevent the North Korean public from accessing any information that does not come from the country's strict government bureau of information, and this means that many North Koreans are grossly misinformed about the position of North Korea in the world and believe, for example, that their meagre lifestyles are preferable to the terrible conditions in other countries. Visitors to North Korea routinely report tight levels of control, with mobile phones confiscated for the duration of the visit and all movement tracked by an official government-supplied 'tourist guide'.