Pros And Cons Of North Korea

As Mr. Ward stated, “North Korea is famously known as The Hermit Kingdom” (np). This title shows how the country isolates itself from the rest of the world. North Koreans believe in many things that they have been told. For example, North Koreans believe that Americans are the root to all evil in their country and that we are the reason that they are living so horribly. The North Korean government also has brainwashed the people to think that Americans are vile and disagreeable. North Korean people also do not just fear the government, but their own kind. North Koreans are exposed to a great deal of oppression because of how the way the government has everything organized to their maximum gain.
Foremost, North Koreans believe that Americans are the root to all evil. North Korea is a very small country and highly corrupted at that. For example, Americans in North Korea are called Mee-guk nom (Kim 8). Mee-guk in Korean means American and nom means a similar reference to the English word bastard. These people also do not believe this is a wrong …show more content…
In one of the games is the teachers would also make a picture representing America and then signal for the children to race toward the picture with a sharp object and scream at the top of their lungs (Kim 12). This type of behavior shows that the teachers are even trained on how to brainwash the children in their daily lives. It also shows how they brainwashed the teachers before that and even possibly the teachers’ parents before that. Previously stated, the brainwashing is based off of the hate towards Americans and Japanese people generated by the North Korean government. As the reader can see, if the North Korean government did not enforce the hate towards these people the brainwashing would fail because it would have no foundation. This constant brainwashing can also cause fear among the people who know what is going