Living In Complete Isolation ie North Korea

Posted by Evan on October 17, 2006

Imagine living in a country where are no cell phones, only 2 TV Stations and both are run by the government, no advertising, no Internet, and no choices. Hard to imagine right? Well not if you live in North Korea. North Korea has been in the news a lot lately with its nuclear weapons testing and their leader, Kim Jong-Il’s hatred for the US. After watching a couple of news specials and reading articles such as this one it is hard to imagine that people live cluelessly about the outside world and are happy about it. They worship Kim Jong Il like he is a demi-god mainly because they are forced to but he has done a masterful job of convincing them that he is their protector.

There are no cell phones b/c the government believes that US Satellites can listen to their calls. There is no advertising because everything is government controlled. There are 2 television stations and both are run by the government. The North Koreans are raised to hate Americans, the US and the western world. Call me clueless but what did we ever do to them? These people go through life not knowing anything that exists on the outside. In today’s ever connected world it is truly hard to imagine a life like this. To be able to brain-wash and spread propaganda through 48 million people without one asking a question why or how is amazing and unfathomable.

I want to go there just to see for myself that this is actually happening but I think the US Military errr I mean the United Nations Military will beat me to it.

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  • Was N. Korea a part of the "world agreement", or did US and a few countries make the "world agreement" and expect the world to follow?

    By what I understand, N. Korea's "official statement" of weapon development was to "protect themselves", even though it was pretty uncool making a point to do it on July 4th.
  • The problem is they specifically say the nukes are meant for the US. The hate us, literally hate US and Americans. Its also not really if they are going to use them but are they going to sell them to some small country that plans on using them. I believe there is a world agreement that if you have nuclear power it must be declared and inspected by the UN.
  • That's true, people have "choices" on religion here. But growing up with "our own kind", it's tough to "believe in alternate choices" when entering college or as an adult. People typically think "the ones who don't believe in what we do are just unnatural or weird" or "they are just wrong". But yes, brainwashing is somewhat better than forced beliefs.

    I know this sounds really unPC: If there's no agreements for Nukes, and other countries have done nuke testing, it somewhat justifies N. Korea doing nuke testings too. The only differences is the "perceived intent of Nukes", and N. Korea, just like the US, use the justifications of "We have nukes to protect ourselves".

    But yeah, their priorities seem somewhat wrong because people are starving there, but make THAT the issue and not "they're developing somewhat we already have" the issue.
  • i agree paul but the fundamental difference is people are given a choice to pick their religon and what they believe in.

    and no i don't think they signed any nuke agreement which is where the problems lie.
  • To be raised with a certain belief without questioning it as an adult because "everyone around me believes the same thing"......sounds formiliar, doesn't it? *cough, cough, religions, cough*

    Just out of curiousity, did N. Korea ever sign anything with the UN saying "We won't have Nukes or do any Nuke testings"?
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