NationStates Jolt Archive

Undercover in the Secret State
CNN Presents follows Korean-American journalist Jung Eun Kim as she tracks down a new breed of dissident in North Korea. These dissidents are using small digital cameras and cell phones to show the world the brutal life inside North Koreahttp://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/
Hmmm...sounds fascinating to me!

How dare she attempt to undermine the magnificent leadership of Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il!

Yeah, they had a report like that on ABC Australia a few weeks back. You'll be depressed for a while though...you probably wouldn't have thought the things you'll see were actually possible.

Protect the republic with your lives! (http://www.korea-dpr.com/media/kfahymn.swf)

Update: I watched this last night...heartbreak, devestating, reminiscent of nazi Germany, just...astoundingly sad:(
Did anyone else see this?

I see you!
http://www.filmfodder.com/images/team_america.jpg

Well given their economic condition plus the severe droughts they've experienced, are you really surprised?

Things in the DPRK are just awful. Having said that i've always thought it would be a fascinating place to visit, so utterly surreal and divorced from real life. A self-enclosed ego-stroke for the power of one man. Something so difficult to understand if you never lived under a similar system i suppose (like Stalinist Russia)

I see you!
http://www.filmfodder.com/images/team_america.jpg


So roneryyyyy...

I really would not want to visit that place, with dead people littering the street and everyone dying of starvation. Plus as a blond white man, even if I snuck past the border guards, I think I would raise some suspicion, and I don’t feel like being executed or sent to a labor camp.

I wasn't suprised,I knew what I was in for, it's just actual video and photography is sometimes more powerful

I really would not want to visit that place, with dead people littering the street and everyone dying of starvation. Plus as a blond white man, even if I snuck past the border guards, I think I would raise some suspicion, and I don’t feel like being executed or sent to a labor camp.
The places to where tourists go on the completely guided tours I daresay wouldn't feature dead bodies everywhere.

I found an article (http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip1.htm~mainframe) once that explains what's it like going there from what seems an American-turned-South-Korean national's viewpoint. It's incredibly interesting, and yet disheartening, seeing what this ridiculous "government" has done to its people.

"fun:rolleyes: " fact: Pyongyang, the capital, is maintained for show to impress foreign dignitaries. No elderly people or pregnant women are allowed inside. Attendance at parades is mandatory.

See, at least in the US, you know we aren't hiding urban crime. DC is one of the most crime-ridden in the country while New York, the largest city, is relatively remarkably safe.