He recalls North Korea being a “Country run on tyranny and dictatorship.” The people inside of North Korea are considered one of the biggest personality cults on earth, almost all citizens seem brainwashed. When they are young they are taught right away, from when they are born to until they die, to love and worship the “great leader.” In Rand’s dystopian world, Equality 7-2521 explains how when he and his brothers lived in The Home of the Students before they would remove North Korea Undercover, Ju Sung Il talks about when he was escaping North Korea and one of his fellow guards was following beside him so that they could escape across the border. In Anthem, Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 stumble upon a tunnel that probably one was a man made train station, but they do not report it to the Council like they are supposed to instead Equality 7-2521 decides that he will keep it as his own private place and that if he were to have his life taken for hiding it so be it.…
The book is about just as the title says; How North Koreans see themselves and why it matters to them and maybe to the outside world looking in as well. Brian Reynolds Myers was born in the United States and completed his Graduate School in Germany. Brian Myers has studied North Korea for over twenty years and…
Barbara Demick interviewed defectors from Chongjin, North Korea in her book “Noth ing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.” She wanted to get an idea of what real life is like in North Korea. She chose an array of defectors from different factions. She told their stories in a novel format instead of having to read their individual interviews. She chose six main people and really dug into their every day life, their thoughts and feelings on what was going on around them.…
Modern day North Korea, nicknamed the hermit kingdom, is known to be heavily isolated from the influences of the world. Its people are secluded and forced to praise their ruler, Kim Jong-un, or else they shall pay a dreadful price. Moreover, personally, I do not believe that Jong un’s people truly see and love him as this god-like figure. To me, I see them as terrified and depressed people who are involuntarily forced by the Korean government to live in a place with no freedom. This is even shown by the number of refugees who risk not only their own lives but their families in order to desperately escapes the clutches of their horrifying environment.…
Kim Kardashian is a famous actor, born and bought up in Los Angeles, California. She is popularly known for her television show series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”. Kardashian’s full name is Kimberly Noel Kardashian, born on 1980 oct 21. She did her schooling in Marymount High School. O. J. Simpson is Kardashian’s godfather.…
Given the secrecy of the North Korean government many of its citizens have no idea about the outside world or even the reality of what happens around them domestically. The mere fact that many of the citizens within North Korea have no idea how babies are conceived just shows that human access to information is very limited in comparison to other areas of the world. The only benefit that this provides for the country is ignorant loyalty in support for their country. Given that much of the well developed and thriving world utilizes a democratic system of government with well supported freedom of speech, many issues get solved for different areas in an economic system. Because North Korea is a planned system they get to decide the fate for all areas of the economy and people are brainwashed to show loyalty to that.…
Citizens must follow numerous strict laws and remain isolated from the work; unlike their leaders who has access to the Internet. As a result, citizens must obey to their leader in order to be safe and remain alive. Despite of the country’s cruelty, numerous North Koreans still admire, respect and even worship Kim Jong-un. However, whether or not some North Koreans truly honor their leader still remains as a…
The government control North Korea has over it’s people can be compared to extremities that are portrayed in the dystopian novel, Anthem. In Anthem, Rand’s purpose is to give an insight to what the world could be like if we let the government control society completely; and the government structure in Anthem provides readers with horrendous comparisons to the society of North Korea. The North Korean society has been…
George Walker Bush is the son of George H.W. Bush and Barbra Bush. He was born in on July 6th in the year of 1946 in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. During the year of 1948 his dad moved him and his family to the state of Texas. Bush attended school in the city of Midland, Texas. After he had completed his grade level of seven he then moved to Houston with his Parents and siblings in the year of 1961.…
A witness who has experienced the torture North Korea has to offer explains how the citizens are all brainwashed into thinking their country is the best, “You are brainwashed from the time you know how to talk, about four years of age, from nursery school, brainwashing through education, this happens everywhere in life, society, even at home” (Walker). The power North Korea has over their people gives the citizens little to no life to live. Through Jun Do’s expeditions in The Orphan Master’s Son, reader’s see just a small section of North Korea. We cannot fully build a perspective due to minimal exposure and censorship of the country's actions. But with the little information taken, we understand North Korean’s live in a country where they are tortured and left to fend for themselves, all because the power of their country fell in the wrong hands of a leader who strongly believes in totalitarian government tactics.…
Propaganda is a very effective tool for keeping people in line, and as a result, some governments, especially totalitarian ones, use propaganda to maintain total control over others. Oceania, in 1984, written by George Orwell, and North Korea, in Nothing to Envy, written by Barbara Demick, are able to keep their citizens quietly obedient, the countries isolated, and the climate hostile by deftly spreading exaggerated information to belittle other people. The governments of Oceania and North Korea use different types of propaganda to convey messages that help the images of the rulers and keep the people at peace with the government. Broadcasters in North Korea would “speak of Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il breathlessly and [carry] tales of supernatural…
The Twitter War President Trump is only significant through his use of social media to connect to the People. Trump is listened to and followed on twitter because he uses the POTUS account, and people follow the president. He also only posts very controversial things which attract people’s attention and has them respond in either negative or positive ways. Finally, Mr. President just cannot help the fact that he is a spoiled and entitled brat who likes to rant on a social media platform also used by twelve year olds who rant about how their parents will not let them out of the house after ten-thirty or how they ‘need a man’ who can provide for them.…
North Korean 1 — WINTER that evening, was finishing tending pigs with sons when dogs began barking madly + growling intensely—someone unfamiliar + dressed in military uniform came up from winding staircase Wang Hao automatically knew he was North Korean mostly b/c of North Korean military uniform, but also b/c of skinny, thin, + malnourished body, desperate look in eyes, + scars on neck 1st time housing a North Korean surprised because encounter was so random + all of a sudden excited/anxious because 1st North Korean + didn’t really know where this would lead to ushered North Korean to come in, ordered wife to cook some rice sent Ming Wen to bring a Korean Chinese in lower area of mountain to translate—farmer told youngest son, “Ming Wen, go to the lower areas of the mountain where the Korean Chinese people live and find someone who’s willing to…
One of the most trending topics in all of the media is Kim Jong-Un and North Korea. This is for good reason, as there are many ideas to report, like how Kim Jong-Un and North Korea’s government has made its country dystopian-like. When analyzing how the government of North Korea makes decisions that creates a dystopian society among their citizens, one can evaluate what changes Kim Jong-Un made that was so influencing and controlling that their country became dystopian, determine the specific impacts this change or these changes have on their nation’s or another nation’s people, and comprehend the various genres of literature be used as a proactive tool in educating people about dystopian societies and progression toward equality. Because no…
However, since the separation, major societal changes have been observed in North and South Korea. When we think of North and South Korea, different images come to mind. For the North, people mostly think of Kim Jong-Un, nuclear weapons, and poverty (Lee 50). On the other hand, the world associates South Korea with technology, Korean pop music, and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The countries' dissimilarities make it hard to visualize a unified Korea, especially within the new generations of Korean citizens (Lee 49).…