This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind in or outside North Korea. Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda. Digital IsolationAbout the book. And we were told specifically not to meet or talk with South Korean students at the contest." – Jeongyol Kim, competed in the International Math Olympiad before defecting North Koreans also rarely have a chance to talk with foreigners who travel to North Korea, and even then there is normally a minder present. "Before we left North Korea, our team was warned not to be swayed by the capitalism we would see in the outside world. Those who are allowed to travel abroad – like diplomats, elite students, recruited workers, and athletes – are monitored closely and must attend special ideological debriefs once they return to North Korea.
North Korean phones cannot make international calls. TVs and radios are preset to approved government channels. “North Korean people are so cut off and disconnected from the outside world that they don’t even know what the word ‘internet’ means” – Kim Min Hyuk, escaped North Korea in 2006 No internet connection to the outside world. They think, ‘If I’m a bride, at least I’ll have enough to eat.’ Wonder at the. But life inside North Korea is so desperate, Peters says, that they’re willing to take the risk.
To justify his authoritarian rule, he rewrote his family’s history and his own accomplishments – claiming to have almost single handedly defeated the Japanese to liberate the Korean people. On June 7, she talked to Asia Society Switzerland about everyday life of the people living in North Korea, what change socially and economically they underwent, and how the continuing sanctions are slowly deteriorating what has recently changed for the better.Kim Il-sung, the first leader of North Korea, built a cult of personality to consolidate power after purging competing factions in the early 1950s. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, still counting. Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain.
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The extreme cult of personality has helped justify the need for the entire North Korean system to revolve around the leader and his absolute authority. State media inside North Korea has even claimed Kim Jong-un learned how to drive at 3 years old. To this day, the ruling Kim family is portrayed as god-like with mythical stories surrounding their accomplishments. The cult of personality, and the exaggerated accomplishments of the Kim family, also served to extend their rule through the ascension of Kim Il-sung’s son, Kim Jong-il and now his grandson, Kim Jong-un. The regime also mandated that every North Korean adult must wear a badge of Kim Il-sung over their heart to show their loyalty – a practice that continues to this day.
Venerate the Great respected comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as the Great Leaders of the Party and of the People, as the Eternal Suns of Juche. Fight, with all your strength, to make the whole society the Kimilsung-Kimjongilist one. Being the only openly gay The Ten Principles For The Establishment Of The Monolithic Ideological SystemThese principles are like the 10 commandments of subservience to the Kim family, and serve as the foundational rules of North Korean society.
Establish a strict organizational discipline in a wholehearted movement of the whole Party, whole state and whole army under the Party’s sole leadership. Venerate the political aspect of life, bestowed by the Leader and by the Party, respond to it by having a high political consciousness and real successes in doing your job. Learn after the Great respected comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, have a high moral and ethical image, use the revolutionary methods of action and the people’s model of action. Reinforce further the ideological willful and revolutionary unity of the whole Party around the figure of its Leader(s). Defend the principle following unconditionally the commandments of the Great respected comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as well as Party line and its policy. Arm yourself with revolutionary ideas of the Great respected comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and with the fulfillment of their ideas: the line and the policy of the Party.
There are token churches and temples in North Korea, but they are kept only to give the appearance of religious tolerance to foreign visitors.In North Korea, if your relative is accused of “anti-state” or “anti-socialist” crimes, then you and three generations of your family can be punished for it. Guards tied her head, her chest, and her legs to a post, and shot her dead." – Kim, North Korean defector. I was told by superiors to go and see the public execution…. "A woman in her 40s was caught keeping a Bible in her home… The woman was publicly shot to death at a threshing floor of a farm. Thousands of Buddhists and Christians have been purged and persecuted since the Kim family came to power.
It can determine where they can live, educational opportunities like attending college, Party membership, military service, occupation, and treatment by the criminal justice system. Songbun levels can severely restrict a North Korean’s life opportunities. There are 51 songbun levels divided into three classes - loyal, wavering and hostile. The regime has invested an incredible amount of time and resources creating the Songbun system, a form of political apartheid that ascribes every North Korean with a level of perceived political loyalty based on their family background. Collective punishment also deters citizens who might sacrifice themselves for a political cause but would not want to sacrifice their whole family.
After his arrest, our family was marked. Soon after, he was arrested and sent to a re-education center to do forced labor for 4 years. They took it from the military’s food supply, which the regime prioritizes the most. “Before I was born, my father and his friends stole grain from the regime because they were starving.
“These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.” – United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report on North KoreaPrisoners are intentionally kept close to starvation, sometimes only receiving a few kernels of corn a day. I would never get the chance to study at a university or pursue my dream of being a singer.” – Ilhyeok Kim, escaped North Korea in 2011 A System of TerrorThe regime relies on political prison camps, torture, collective punishment, and public executions to evoke fear and crush even the slightest flicker of political dissent. Because of my father’s crime, any dreams I would have for my life were already crushed. If a family member commits a crime against the regime, the entire family, including children who are not even born yet, can be punished and ostracized for life.
We’d go into the mountains to gather firewood. "When we weren’t crammed into our cells, sleeping on a filthy floor, we were forced to work. Many prisoners must rely on eating insects, rodents, and snakes to survive.
Some mornings I woke up to find one of my cellmates stiff and lifeless. People grew so hungry that the guards had to drag them from the toilets so they wouldn’t eat their own feces. It was never enough and the hunger clawed at our stomachs. We were only fed a quarter of an ear of corn per meal.
Every night a prison guard would open the cell. It was the sound of the key of the cell of our prison room opening. Every night some woman would be forced to leave with a guard and be raped.Click, click, click was the most horrible sound I ever heard. “Rape and violent beatings were rampant at the Chongjin holding center. Guards and police officers rape and assault women without repurcussion.
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