N. Korea: Depressing Life of Children (Video)

[Eisuke]

I found this video about the bad conditions that North Korean children live in. You can download it.

May 6, 2005

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Comments for each segment of the video

1. street kids in miserable condition

2. kids at work

3. kids giving oath

4. an interview with N. Korean kids(probably in Pyongyang) -- kids say they study hard and work in organizations to please the leader. They want unification because they feel so bad about S. Korean kids who are miserably poor, scavenging trash dumps.

5. a news clip on a triplet (Gosh! They do dig triplets!)

6. a brief segment on a group session

7. a boy recites the Kim Il-sung's episode associated with the picture(of a spring)

8. a boy explains what the miniature mockup of a house is about(Kim Il-sung's birth home.)

9. pupils at Byora kindergarten do mock battle training.

10. kid soldiers in uniform on the march

11. nursery kids play the game 'clubbing (ugly) Americans'

12. a little girl wearing a placard tells other kid a horrible story about a girl, Kim Ji-sun in S. Korea, whose mother dies because they are too poor to get medicine, her father was run over by American military vehicle, and her siblings were starved to death. She went on to say that American 'hyenas' put him to death by lethal injection because he had no money, I sold my eye to pay for dad's hospital bills, I cannot live without my dad, I will grow up and take revenge on American 'hyenas,' and want to be in the arm of father general(Kim Jong-il or Kim Il-sung.) We all fight until the day comes.

13. children doing outdoor works.

14. teenagers(or soldiers) doing a double-time march

15. teenagers doing special military trainings

16. kid's initiation to Communist Youth Brigade

17. Kim Jong-il riding a horse

18. starving and dying street kids

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[Brooker]

The part that caught my attention was the school kids hitting the fake American soldiers. Schools should not teach hatred, they should teach knowledge.

 

[Mycernius]

It strikes me that the way they keep control is by brainwashing the children at an early age. Make you think how lucky most of us are in the west were we can get access to information to help us form our own opinions.

 

[Davey]

The part that caught my attention was the school kids hitting the fake American soldiers. Schools should not teach hatred, they should teach knowledge.

i agree again with you about this!!!

why do schools teach them such hate, to a country they dont even know..

were is this world going sometimes

 

[Ma Cherie]

It strikes me that the way they keep control is by brainwashing the children at an early age. Make you think how lucky most of us are in the west were we can get access to information to help us form our own opinions.

That's one way to control people. Keep them ignorant about the outside world. I thank God that I live in the West, it's more of a blessing than luck for me.

 

[A5573A]

Thanks a lot for the video

I believe N.K. brainwashing her citizens from early age, and I also believe Palestanian authority is doing the same thing.

When people talk about brainwashing, like we see brainwashing in another country from media. Do you think sometimes the program itself is a kind of propoganda, in other words, brainwashing?

 

[qwertyu]

The worst brainwashing is when no one even suspects it, not even yourself, and you go along with it thinking you live in a fantastic, free society and that your government and fellow citizens can't possibly lie. Most Germans and Japanese bought into it early this century. Half of Americans today still believe Saddam is linked to 9/11 and there WMD were found in Iraq.

 

[ippolito]

what the comunism has done in the past and what now is doing in N. Korea, in Tibet....it is horrible and no solutions for the next future....

 

[Supervin]

Bah, totalitarianism.

Apparently, kids there are taught that Kim Jong-il is some sort of deity who was born in a 'sacred place'...