Kim's Propaganda In North Korea

Despite Kim's propaganda, North Korea made itself universally acknowledged as a deeply restrained and confining state. The founder’s brutality relating to the his past reflect the ideas now practiced in North Korea’s totalitarian government. Spreading across three generations, the current communist party of North Korea has had the power to keep their objectives alive. In an essay written by Will Hopkins, he states that Kim started off his regime by eliminating any political opposition and portraying himself "as an embodiment of what he called a 'true Korean'. He did so by dictating the media and by releasing propaganda to his nation." Kim I'll-Sung first made the public believe that he was more than just an ordinary man, he then acquired control …show more content…
The Korean Friendship Association (KFA), a foundation dedicated to create international ties with the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, published an article that contains pictures of Kim Jon Un visiting an orphanage, appearing to be all smiles from both himself and the children. The pictures also depict very colorful environments and chilling happily learning in classrooms and celebrating the visit of their Supreme Leader. Yet, many people in the country are starving and the stories of the people who are lucky enough to leave North Korea depict something totally different. They explain an environment where many kids are on the streets starving and freezing to death, yet very distinctive photos released by the Korean regime try to show …show more content…
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. Johnson’s representation of the country is only a taste of what North Koreans deal in an everyday basis. They live in fear, with no chance of