McLaughlin Assignment 13 DUE 12/8
Based on our discussions in class and the resources listed, respond to the following question(s) in no less than 150 words:
Now that we have seen the "Inside North Korea" documentary, how would you describe the life of the average North Korean citizen? What aspects did you find most disturbing or surprising? Why? What do you feel are the most significant differences from life in the United States? Do you think every student should see this documentary? Why or why not?
Check out the segments of the documentary:
Life in North Korea, is heavily constricted and watched by the government. All the citizens are there on a purpose to serve "The Great Leader" (Kim Jong Il). Within the country, if you don't live in the capital of Pyongyang, then you aren't privileged and most likely live a life of maltreatment and danger. However, these citizens are trained to serve, respect and love the Great Leader no matter what. I believe the most disturbing part within the documentary, is that even though they showed all these bad things (famine, starvation, abuse and all other health problems). The citizens seemed not to be bothered that and Kim Jong Il can do nothing wrong. When these people were healed, by Surgeon Sandik Rudit, they bowed down to the Great Leader as if he himself performed these surgeries. Another thing that I found really disturbing is the isolation and restrictions of this country. A place were ALL books are made by one man and his family. A place that is ruled on a iron grip basically made of fear and this fear is what allows this country to stay so isolated and restricted. When watching this documentary, you couldn't help but think about our differences as countries. In the US, we are allowed to say what we feel. As a natural born right, we can protest and manipulate almost anything to our liking. Compared to a place such as North Korea, where you are bound inside and if you dare say anything out of the governments liking; you and your family are as good as dead. It makes me grateful and more reflective toward the things that this country has. Every student should see this, especially students involved with a Global/Government class. It allows you to see the world in a whole new different perspective and makes you think about whatever country you may be from in a whole different way. Whatever you may think after, this documentary allows you open your eyes and gives you something to ponder on. Very good documentary.
ReplyDeleteCeCe Howard
Period 5.
I would describe the life of an average North Korean citizen as terrifying. It was really sickening to watch the way Kim Jung II governs the nation. The aspect that I found most disturbing is the way people treat the leader of North Korea. They worship him like a God, and assume he can do no wrong. However, it is because of him that many are malnourished and that they have had famines as well as many health problems. It is so sad to see how the people are brainwashed from their early years. This bothered me because I felt helpless as they are, just by watching the documentary. I could only image, and never really understand, how these people are able to survive such injustices carried on by Kim Jung II. I feel the most significant difference from life in the U.S. is freedom. In North Korea, there is no freedom of the press, expression, or religion. There are so many things that many of us in the western civilizations take for granted. Many North Koreans even lack knowledge that to many of us is common sense like the existence of cell phones and the internet, or the fact that men have been to the moon. I think that every high school student should see this documentary so that they can reflect and learn to further appreciate the way our lives are.
ReplyDeleteMariela Ortiz (period 3)
This documentary about North Korea was really moving and eye opening. The life that average North Korean citizens have are pitiful because they are completely accustomed to things being very restricted on their freedom of choice. Finding out that people don’t have proper health care is really provoking because they worship a man that would not give them a proper healthy lifestyle. This one man has so much power in government and yet he cannot look after the health of his people is very selfish. The most significant difference from the life in the United States from life in North Korea is the way Americans have the freedom of choice . I think every student should see it, regardless if it is disturbing or not because it is the truth of North Korea and student should be open minded to all that’s going on the world. Student should be able to form their own opinions and judgment based on what is present to them.
ReplyDeleteShazia R prd 3
The life of the average North Korean citizen is dismal and depressing. People are not permitted what we know to be basic human civil rights such as free speech. They cannot take a picture the wrong way, talk in the wrong tone, or give the wrong facial expression without being interrogated. Any action considered treason, such as being the relative of someone who has talked bad about “the great leader” can land what seems to be an innocent person in a camp for the rest of their lives. It is fear that is instilled in every citizen of North Korea. Fear of disobeying Kim Jong il, fear that has taken generations to build.
ReplyDeleteThe aspect I found most disturbing was the immense amount of brainwashing that has taken place in North Korea. The willingness to praise over and over “the great leader” after the doctor fixed each patient’s eyes. It was not Kim Jong il that did 1, 000 eye surgeries, he did not stay up all night meeting that goal, he did not travel thousands of miles to come and help as many people as possible. In all those praises not once did I hear a thank you to the doctor. In the eyes of the citizens Kim Jong il is like god, he resorted their sight, and to me that is nauseating. He is the one that made their conditions so drastically worse. Operations and assessments that should and could have been done years ago were not permitted because of the strict limitations of North Korea and for that it’s his fault. However, instead of seeing what he has done, North Koreans filter information to only see the good sides and the positive Kim Jong il, in their minds he can do no wrong and they mentally mask the realities to get them through each day.
Obviously here we are free. Freedom. The basic underlying word behind each different. We are able to worship whomever we like. We have the choice to support the president or be against him. We have the freedom to take a picture how we like, speak how we like, publish (to a certain ectent) what we like, and the list goes on.
Every student should see this documentary to keep them grounded. To remind them that there is a big world out there, it’s not just the U.S. There are places where people are not free and things are unfair. Complaining about their everyday lives because their mom said their getting an ipod not an ipad for Christmas is trivial and materialistic compared to the harsh realities of North Korea. They might decide to complain a little less for what they don’t have and realize how lucky they actually are. Just to live in the America, what some would give.
Now that I have seen the "Inside North Korea" documentary, I feel extremely sorry for what these people have to go though each and every day. It also makes me think a little more about how I live my life and appreciate things a lot more because even the simplest things to us are things that these people have never had or have a chance of ever having etc. The average life of a North Korean citizen is horrific, planed out to the point where they aren’t who they want to be or who they were born to be but someone who their great leader has made them to be, brain washed them to be exactly how it works around his ideas. Which I find degrading and sad. Some aspects I found most disturbing were the fact that the people didn’t even know the meaning of “WRONG” when the women asked them if their leader is doing anything wrong. That was scary because they only new good things because hes done nothing bad just good as they were saying. Also what shocked me was how they acted about taking the picture of their general; it was as if we did a crime. The most significant differences from life in the United States and NK is that we are “FREE” to do as we please, we have rights and not because our government gives them to us and because they are so good but because we have these natural rights the day we are born and we know that no one can ever take them away from us. I strongly believe that every student should see this documentary it just makes you really open your eyes and mind to what’s really going around you and snap out of your perfect little bubble.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the documentary I was so disgusted and wanted to cry at the fact that the people can act in such a horrifying matter, and not know that something is really wrong with the place they are living in. The filming was real but the way they all acted was like, they had something to hide. The only person they bow to and pray for happiness and good health is the General Leader Kim Jung ill. The people never even meet this guy and they only have pictures of him all over their homes, but yet they credit him all the “good” things that have happened to them. The children are taught to think of Americans as pathetic people and that they should all be killed, and every book written there is by Kim Jung ills father. The NKorean people feel that they have a lot, but their healthcare is absolutely lacking in good supplies, and the whole system is bad. So many of them are blind, and at the end of the documentary when the people thanked not the doctor but Kim Jung ill, I was so upset. These people have no freedom, but yet when someone else does something good for them, that person doesn’t get the credit. They don’t understand right from wrong, and see no wrong in their leader. It is so awful that these people can’t even get out of their own country or even city, and fences and soldiers block their way out. There are even concentration camps if you say anything against the things being done. There are huge differences with the USA and NKorean, the most important being freedom. In Nkorea the people could only ever talk about NKorea and the leader, but in America people can say whatever they feel about the government without having to get killed. Our healthcare might not be fantastic but it is tremendously better than NKoreas, and people aren’t getting blind left and right. These people live out of fear and commitment to keep their families safe, because they feel that they will get killed if they say one wrong thing. I can’t even come to say how horrible it is that this leader is praised for his disgusting acts. I would want to yell and say how awful he really is. More people should see this and there should be more discussions as to how humanity is compared to here.
ReplyDeleteI would say that the life of a North Korean is horrible because of the way that their treated. In every home you see a picture of the general and they all say that he is god. They have no acces to anything only access to the stuff that the general father made like the books. What reAlly disturbed me was when they got healed from their blindness all of them bowed down to a picture of the general and said thank you to him instead of saying that to the doctor who took the time to make this possible. The HUGE diffrence their is between us and them is that we have freedom, if we dont want to listen to the goverment then ok nothing is going to happen to you. If you dont follow the order of the general in North Korea you get put in a concentration camp. I think that every student should watch this video to see how diffrent we are from them and that we should be thankfull for where we are now. Its really sad to see these people brained washed and all of them just in love with the general.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Caraballo Period 5
After seeing the documentary on North Korea I was shocked. I never knew how peoples lifes can change when being under a dictatorship how they only know what is going on is by their leader. If they were let out of North Korea they wouldn’t know what to think they would have a hard time, dealing with everyday life. They don’t have freedom and when they are rising their children they grow up knowing that they have one leader and he is always right. They showed that there leader could do no wrong. When the doctor finished all the eye surgery’s when the doctor removed the eye patches the first thing that they did was go up to their leader and would praise him and thank him that they could see not the doctor who made it happen but the leader that didn’t do anything. The people of North Korea would never leave and can’t because if one person of there family left and went to the other side, the rest of his or hers family would be put into camps where they would not be able to leave for the rest of their lives. The people of North Korea are not brain washed even though it seems like they are. They were brought up that way and could never see what is really going on in the rest of the would. The only books that are in North Korea are written by one person and that is there leader Kim Jung ill. No other authors just him and they believe that the U.S. is bad and South Korea and that is why they live the way they do. While the rest of the world is living in freedom North Korea isn’t and the people don’t even know because they are told what to do and what to believe in and they live in a dictatorship and that their leader does no wrong.
ReplyDeleteErin O'Driscoll
Pd5
The life of an average North Korean citizen is definitely nothing like we have ever seen before. They basically spend all day working for their dictator and then spend the rest of their time worshipping him and bowing to his pictures. One thing I found very disturbing was when they asked the old woman who was blind why she was most upset about being blind she responded "because I am not able to see my dear leader." That was very shocking to me because she was standing in a room filled with her children and grandchildren but there was only one person she wished to see. The most significant difference from the United States is that we are free. We have a say in our government and these people have no say and they have no idea how the outside world really is. There are completely isolated and don't have a clue about the people around them. I do think every student should see this documentary because it was a definite eye opener for me. When they used to tell me about North Korea I would laugh and make jokes but it really is no laughing matter. I feel as though I am very privileged to live the life that I do and if other students saw this documentary I am sure they would feel the same way.
ReplyDelete-Chrysanthe Thomatos Period 3
After watching the North Korea documentary I was in a huge state of Shock and thankful that I live here instead of there. I would say the life of an average North Korean citizen is very depressing. They spent their lives closed off from the rest of the world and have no idea what is going on outside of their country. I find it both surprising and sad how North Korea is so brain washed by their leader. There was a part of the video where a little girl and her mom where walking down the street and the only songs they would sing were about how the Americans were bad. This disgusted me because it’s the only thing Kim Jong Il has taught them. He brainwashes them to believe that whatever he says is law. As the video states, he is like their god. The North Koreans also worshiped him and did anything for him. I was angry at how they could not see how badly he was treating them. A real leader would not seclude their country. They wouldn’t treat their people so poorly, and they wouldn’t let their country live in fear. To me, the North Koreans seemed scared. Every time a news reporter asked them a question, they would answer as if they were reciting what Kim Jong Il wanted them to say. He dictates their lives to an extreme and they can’t do anything about it. Obviously the lives of North Koreans are very different from ours. As American’s we have the power to say and do things as we please because it’s within our first amendment rights. We don’t have to worry about saying what we really think. In North Korea, they don’t have that. They constantly have to worry about saying things that will please their leader and making him look good. I feel that every student should see this documentary because it shows how other people live. It gives us a chance to see how lucky we are to have what we do.
ReplyDeleteAfter viewing “Inside North Korea” I would describe the experience as gruesome. All the people that live in North Korea spend every moment of their lives dedicated to worshiping their “great” leader. What I found to be most disturbing was the end; when all of the citizens were getting their bandages taken off. The repeated thanksgiving ceremony that they people performed was so disturbing, it left me speechless. They completely ignored the great man who had saved their sight and went straight to their leader thanking him for his kindness. They see him as a god like figure, worshiping everything he says and does. The freedoms that we have here in the United States most clearly set a division from us and the North Koreans. It is our freedom that enables us to think on our own and be independent beings; where in North Korea, all the people are brainwashed to think the same way. They are like horses with blinders on, not allowed to see anything into the horizons. I think that it would be beneficial for all students to watch this video. It is very informative and gives students a better understanding of how the whole world doesn’t work like the United States. We are a very privileged country and we just assume that everyone else lives in the same life style.
ReplyDelete~Sarah Bianchi period three
Based on this documentary, the life of an average North Korean citizen is a life that no one would wish to have. Its a life of brainwash, dictatorship, and horrible living. From birth, they are taught to love and worship their ‘great’ leader, and no one else. They are taught things that are against there will, even though they have no idea that it is actually ‘against their will’. They have no tv’s, no cell phones, no knowledge at all of the outside world. I mainly knew how bad North Korea was, watching this video was just more of a reality of it to me. What surprised me the most was towards the end, when the Doctor started to take off all of his patients bandages off their eyes. Never ONCE did the Doctor get thanked, but after the removal of bandages from each patients eyes, that patient proceeded to walk towards two pictures of the General of North Korea, and literally bowed down to it, as they screamed their feelings of love and praise for the General, and how they would ‘work harder’ for the General as well. You can not even begin to compare the United States to North Korea, their is NO possible comparisons at all what so ever. Everything is a difference from us to them, the way we live, the way we were brought up, our many beliefs, our technology. We are the land of the free, literally, and not only free in general but free in what we can feel and do. I believe that every student should have the opportunity to see this documentary, as it will make them realize how good they really have it, living in this great country, and having the freedom we are allowed to have. I know it made me realize it, it made me more thankful for the things and the freedom we have here in the U.S.
ReplyDelete-Chelsea R. PD 3
(i accidently commented this on the chapter 25 blog too)
The average life of a North Korean citizen is not a very privileged one. Every aspect of their lives revolve around their leader Kim Jung LL, they praise him for everything and he can never do wrong or at least this what they were raised to believe. They are trapped in their Hermet kingdom of North Korea and there is no way out. The North Korean citizens are blocked from getting any information on what is going on outside of North Korea. There is no internet or cell phones and every book there is written by their leader Kim Jung LL or his father. The only information they are allowed to receive is what comes form their leader. They are under complete dictatorship. I found it very disturbing how the citizens do not even second guess or question their leader. I was totally shocked when they were asked the question "Can Kim Jung LL ever do anything wrong?" they could not answer because they did not even understand the question. They don't understand the concept of their leader doing wrong. Also after they had removed their bandages and regained their sight, the first thing everyone did was kneel down to their leader. It didn't even cross their mind to thank the doctor who did the procedure. I strongly believe that every student should watch this documentary because we don't realize how good we have it here. To see how these people lived compared to us is terrifying. No medical treatments, the hospitals used bear bottles for IVs, we have so many advantages here in the U.S that many of us take advantage of. This video will give students a different mindset and hopefully they will be more grateful.
ReplyDelete-Jessica Morales
The average life of a North Korean citizen is unfair and an unfortunate life to live. They are brainwashed, uneducated and as well as isolated. They are isolated from the world and know nothing of any one else or any where else. They've been brainwashed into being true to their leader and their side of North Korea. Uneducated is another word to fit for the North Koreans, they have no knowledge or education in other parts of the world, they do not know what goes anywhere and they don't know of anyone. North Koreans either have true loyalty and dedication to their leader and country or they have true fear; of these two we wouldn't know and this is very much disturbing. It is disturbing because these people are not being treated like people and only as animals, they can not express their humanity nor speak of what they think or feel, they can only express and speak of one thing and that one thing is their leader, Kim Jung ill. The most significant differences from the U.S. and North Korea is the form of Government that is taken place; the U.S. and the North Koreans are extremely different countries, and the form of government plays a big role in this. Yes, I think every student should watch this documentary because it gives you a taste in what life would be like if we were to live in a different country, it gives us a sense of knowledge to know how it would be like to live in a country that were communist. Your informed about the reality around you.
ReplyDeleteCHRISTINA CHRONOS prd 3
the scariest part of the entire documentary was when that 22 year old had her eyesight and she immediately thanks the great leader. she didn't even think about thanking the doctor. I don't know why but that made so sad, i mean she believes that everything good happens - because of him. IT WAS THE DOCTOR WHO SAVED HER. AND SHE SHOWED NO GRATITUDE.
ReplyDeletealso, the part when the first leader died , they were hysterical. the reporter and everybody crying as if it was JESUS or the end of the world.
I think every student should see this simply because they should see what a wonderful country they live in. Being able to see other kinds of people, being able to believe in whatever you want, having true opinions and having options.
freedom. and freedom of the mind, not just the body
I feel so sorry for those people. truly sorry, especially because they have not truly lived a normal life.
Just the fact that Lisa Ling had to give her up cell phone when she got there scared me...I can't imagine not being to contact someone out of the country, or seeing that man's face everywhere.
I wonder if she was scared as hell.
Livianette Cabrera,
period 3
The way I would describe the life of an average North Korean citizen is limited, even more than limited if there was a word for it, but for them it’s the best life anyone can ask for; they are completely brain washed and/or scared. The live like prisoners’. The aspects I found most disturbing throughout the documentary was, after all the people got there eye sight every single one of them would say “thank you so much” “We praise you” “I will be faithful” and the most disturbing “I will kill all the Americans I can” (or something like that). Everyone kept thanking Jon Kim Il and no one every dared to turn around and thank the staff and the doctor for anything, or praising him, or bowing down to him, or crying out to him the way they did to Jon Kim. What I found surprising was when they guy laid down to take the picture because the statue of Jon Kim Il was too big and the North Korean guy told him he has to leave the next day because nobody every lays down to his statue. I find all this surprising because one, common sense the “master” didn’t do the surgeries himself, the doctor did it and yet they still thanked him, and for the second im surprised because common sense again, the statue was too big, and it doesn’t even matter there no big deal, what if a bum slept in front of it. If that thing was in New York of anyone famous people would even sit on the base under it. I feel like our freedom to be who we are is different. There everyone is the same, and has the same rights as our prisoners here which I find very unfair because still everyone there is loyal to Jon, as if it was anyone here people who flip out the way tons of people flip out on how ridiculous mayor Bloomberg is. I do think every student should see it because it makes us look at what we have here and appreciate and continue to work hard for what we have.
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Desirae La Furno
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~ I would say that I cant even describe the north korean citizen teenager as even having a life. that is know life, they have no freedom of any sort at all and I feel so bad. I found it to be really disturbing when the citizens were bowing down to the great general because they were thanking him for gibing them the ability to see again. When really i saw fear in the north korean eyes. In the untied states we have freedom we have rights and compared to the north koreans we get away with murder, if we were to switch places with the north koreans we would most likely wind up dead in a matter of two seconds because we wouldn't be able to keep our mouths shuts. I think that every student should watch this documentary, it most defiantly open your eyes and makes you really think ho truly lucky we are.
The life of the average North Korean is in the words of Hobbes, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" much like the state of nature without a government. It is solitary in the aspect that no person has the right to self, the state is everything with total control and the people are just a part of the state. Nobody is allowed to think, act, or speak their minds and anybody who is different is sent away in an attempt to create a perfect, dictatorial, communist country. It is poor, nasty, brutish, and short because of the fact that North Korea is no more than a failed state. North Korea fails to provide basic health care services, fail to provide aid to the people, and fail to act in the best interest of the people. Their newest generation is known as the stunted generation because of the lack of food, life in North Korea is nasty, brutish, and short. The most disturbing aspect is the fact that although mistreated and underfed, every person in the country is ready to fight and fight willing against anybody their ‘Dear Leader’ says. The extend of mind control that the party has on population is just staggering. The most significant differences are the lack of freedoms that the North Koreans has not even heard of. The freedom of speech is taken so much for granted in the US while it is nonexistent in North Korea. To say that North Korea lack freedoms would be an understatement of the sad truth. Because of this harsh reality, not just every student should see this but just about every person in the world. The idea that we worry about the economy is belittling to the fact that in countries like North Korea, their worry is their next meal.
ReplyDeleteLife in North Korea would be best described as an imprisoned dark and defiant. Some in the country are clueless to what’s outside of the 'four walls' of North Korea has or rather what North Korea lets them see and some are just defiant and do not want to believe otherwise. In my opinion there was not one shocking part in the documentary because i was continually shocked as I continued to watch. But one of the parts that stuck in my memory was when they played a part of another North Korean documentary where a mother was singing to her child a "lullaby" that sang something like you pathetic Americans you will soon kneel down to us. I was surprised to hear the resent the North Koreans still have against Americans and how they still blame us for the split. Also I was shocked to see that the only resources or books North Koreans have available are written by Kim Ill Sung, meaning that the North Koreans only know what the leader wants them to know. I also found it shocking in the beginning of the documentary to see that the North Koreans wouldn’t even let people come into their country without escorts or without being checked. They came to the people to escort them. Also at the at the DMZ while the south Koreans stand looking into North Korea it was surprising to see that the North Koreans would also stand looking into North Korea ... to make sure that no one would escape. But the most shocking or disturbing part of the documentary had to be the ending when the North Koreans bandages were coming off after the cater ac surgery. As they were being un bandaged and the north Koreans realized that they had their simplest thing back, their sight they would go straight to a picture of their leader and bow and cry and chant their eternal devotion towards him. They would even promise that their unborn family member would love him. They did not even acknowledge the doctor who cured them and performed thousands of surgeries. The worst part is that these people were losing their sight because of him and yet they were so thankful to him for something that was his fault. But I realized that they didn't know anything else, they could have been doing it out of pure devotion or fear but either way it’s all they knew to do. Although I have always been grateful to live in the United States rather than any other country, I did not know how oblivious I was to how life actually was in other countries. In the united states our government is surrounded around the idea of for the people by the people although we may not always follow this the people in the united states have the privilege of turning on the TV or flipping through the news and educating themselves on our politicians and government, its just a matter of how much the people in the US involve themselves. Also people in the US have natural rights to protect us so that the government does not have too much power where as North Korea does not if a person does something in North Korea that the leader doesn't like they don't stand a chance. I believe that every student or anyone for that matter should see this documentary because it might help people realize how good they have it in the US because people in the US complain about our government but the fact of the matter is how much that person apply themselves. Also Its easy to say that the people in north Korea should just kill the leader or to rebel but these people have been threatened and feared into believing that this is the only way of life so it’s just not possible.
ReplyDeleteI found most surprising by the way North Korean act. They seem like that they truly believe in King Jong ll as a god. For example, North Koreans believe that every good thing that has happened to them is all because of King Jong ll. The biggest difference between North Korea and the United States is that North Korea seems so lifeless and dead. People who live in North Korean only have a close-minded view of the world, but they don’t even know that they don’t have the chance to see outside of the North Korean. But the people who live in United State can get connect to anywhere in the world. They have the chance to do what they want to do.
ReplyDeleteIt’s good to watch this document as well, because we get to know more about another country and after we watch it, we see that we have to think before we decide to follow something. Instead of just taking the information which people or the government gives us, think more about what we truly believe in and to follow it wisely.
Pd 5.
After viewing the snippet of the documentary, I believe life in North Korea is like life in any other third world country. People tell you what to do and when to do it, and if you don’t do what you’re told, you’re either killed or beaten to the point where you might as well just die. I find everything disturbing due to the fact that I was born and raised in a democratic country, which is the exact opposite of what North Korea is. I don’t just recommend that students see this film, but that every American sees this film to be armed with awareness that as bad as things could be, they could obviously be so much worse. I’d also like to show this film to the people who believe our “great president” is going to save us all. This is what America is going to look like if we don’t give him the boot.
ReplyDeleteVittorio Rivera period 3
The life of an average North Korean is HORRIBLE. The majority of the country has a mind set of the 1900s. They are clueless to the many changes the world has went through. Being empowered by the ruler who they praise and look to as god, they believe that he has granted them such a wondrous life when in reality it is cruel and unnatural, in my opinion not being able to live freely is one of the most outrageous and evil things that could happen to a person, especially when they are clueless to what opportunities live outside the box they are closed in to.I found the scene where they citizens of North Korea regained there vision thanks to the doctor, not one person thanked the doctor, they all rushed over to the picture of there king and praised him for the gift they had just received. But they could not be blamed for their actions the person who should be blamed is the king as he treats his people so nastily it has been reported that he indulges in life and has imported goods sent to him yearly. This shows you how fowl and corrupt their King really is, but since he has brained washed the people so well they are ignorant to what is really going on. I do believe that every student should watch this film, it gives them knowledge about what is really happening in the world, and maybe some will realize what they have and not take it for granted, or throw it away.
ReplyDeleteLife in north korea is really scary. The soilders are brutal. Daily life is monitered and every sentence out of all of their mouthes has to do with their leader and is rehersed to say to the outside world. Its disturbing how they have no contact to the outside world at all. Their cellphones were taken away and little children are reciting songs about "The Great Leader". Im suprised because people are allowed to treat people like this in the world. The most signifigant differences is we have a say in goverment, we have freedom of speech, religion, and press, we have technology we can communicate with people around the world. EVERY student should see this documentary because some americans take advantage of our rights and have to be thankful that we have what we have.
ReplyDeleteThe life for an average North Korean citizen, in our eyes, is not normal. They pretty much live in fear but “play it off” as they are in love with the general leader. I found a lot of the video disturbing and surprising. I learned a lot from the video like that fact that they cannot have any contact with outside countries. I knew that they weren’t allowed to have any communications with South Korea and the United States, but I never knew that they were known as the “Hermit Kingdom” because of the extreme isolation from the world. Another thing I found really disturbing was that when the doctor did the one thousand cataract surgeries and the people were taking off the bandages, they all ran to the photo of the Great leader and they praised him and thanked him for the ability to see again. The doctor did the work not the great leader. The most significant differences between lives here and there are outrageously different. Here when something is done for you, you thank the person who did it for you not our president. Here, we are born with our freedoms and there they have NO rights whatsoever. Here, we have communication devices but there they have no internet, and no phones.
ReplyDeleteI think that every student should watch this video because it teaches them how much we take our freedoms and everything else we have for granted, and we have so many things that others don’t get.
Kim Hanlon Pd.5
sarah han
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I was disgraced when I saw all the North Koreans worship kim-ll sung like a god. I’ve always known Koreans have a strong bond with Jesus and seeing this made me sick. They are truly brainwashed by their so called government, the control they have over these people and it saddens me to see them like this. They are isolated from the world and cannot have any contact with the outer life; this really sickens me to hear. This means they have no or little knowledge of people who are better off than them if they knew well about us maybe they would try to seek a better healthier life if they can by chance escape theirs. They don’t see what we see and the way they are living is normal for them but it is not to us. Life in North Korea is depressing to watch because they have no freedom and have to be watched by the government every day. I would not want to live there and I am thankful that I was born in the United States. We are so privileged and most do not see how much we are blessed to be brought up in the United States. Everybody should watch this documentary because it is educational and sickening but it will allow them to see what horrible conditions people are living in.
After viewing the documentary "Inside North Korea", I must say that the life of a North Korean citizen is terrible compared to and American citizen. The main parts of this film in which I found most disturbing had to be the Stature of Kim Jong Il. The way he is viewed as a God King is awful. Whenever something good happens, "Thank God for our great General". He is appointed credit for ANYTHING good that happens. Surgeon fixes your cataract, thanks be to Kim Jong Il. I don't understand how none of them thanked the doctor who was preforming surgery for thousands of blind patients. Most significant difference between N. Korea and the U.S. has to be the freedom. When you get kicked out of a country for lying down while taking a photograph of a statue of the old General, you know there is no freedom. You don't even have freedom of speech there. You could be sent to imprisonment camps just for saying the leader is stupid, or wrong. I think that if every student saw this documentary it would have a huge impact on them in the sense that you will be more grateful for what you have.
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