Defectors

the country they thought they knew. Jung Quang from the Frontline documentary. “Secret State of North Korea,” said that pop culture is the most important role in bringing democracy into North Korea. In fact, studies show that more than half of the defectors had watched foreign films before defecting, thus proving its impact. Not only is bringing awareness effective, it is also a lot safer for the United States. The citizens have been brainwashed to hate Americans their whole life, and any…

Censorship is what governments use to hide the public from reality. The novel Fahrenheit 451 expresses how a person’s mindset develops by the knowledge they receive. For instance, if the government controls information that literature, media, the internet, and forms of communication give, civilians will know nothing more than what the government provides to them. Those in power limit information to the public in order to seize control over the population. Some countries that possess events which…

Kim Jong Un: Modern Machiavelli or Relentless Dictator Many people consider a leader to be somebody who is “the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country” (Google Definition). What many people fail to realize is that nowhere in that definition does it state that the ruler has to be compassionate or civil. Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a country in East Asia. He is overly controlling and forces his subjects to love him - or…

The Jonestown massacre was one of the most horrific and prolific mass casualty events to date. With over 900 deaths, and a third of those being children, most of us ask the question, why? Why did the members of the Jonestown colony participate in the massacre? To be able to answer the question, we need to look at the social, psychological, and ideological factors that led up to the massacre. While there is no single reason that this event happened, we can examine the different factors to begin…

(chief scientist at United States Army Medical Response Institute of Infectious Disease or USAMRIID for short), D.A. Henderson (former director of WHO vaccination program), Lisa Hensley (disease researcher working with USAMRIID), and Ken Alibek (defector from Russia) work day and night to either find a vaccination or eradicate smallpox for good. Robert Stevens was…

Moral Courage in Work Camps Today When one thinks of concentration camps, he or she thinks of the Holocaust and that concentration camps are a thing of the past. However, there are still horrendous concentration camps similar to the ones during the Holocaust existing in the world today. In 1959, the Kaechon political prison camp was created in the center of North Korea. The camp is also known as Camp 14, and it is believed to imprison 15,000 people who are life sentenced. Most of these…

For 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the central symbol of the Cold War that separated families and keep opportunities in the West bloc from those in the East bloc. The wall was built by the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev to prevent the East Germany defectors from crossing the border over to the more booming West Germany. Specifically, the wall was built all the way around West Berlin. The American-British-French zones were enclosed with the wall. The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of…

man who changed the CIA for the better. His brilliant ideas are noted throughout the book and are enjoyable to read. Another quote from the book is, “Angleton’s third mole hunt in 1963 targeted the CIA’s station in Mexico City, and it involved the defector Lee Oswald. It, too, ended badly.” Morley writes about Angleton’s successes and failures. He was a very smart and powerful person, but no one was…

Humanity Barred “I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling or the absence of it.” - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin. The Human Rights Act is a document that was drafted in a time of global crisis. Article 5 is defined as a ban on torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. While this document was created to combat torturous acts, unfortunately they have been repeated through history, ranging on a small scale to a global crisis. Society will continue to repeat acts…

Nazi Germany had outfitted itself very effectively for conflict. The technology they possessed was superior to the United States on many fronts. Tanks that could make quick work of ours, and fighters planes with jet engines that were immensely superior to propellers. While this gave Germany an advantage, they also knew that they were not infallible. With this in mind they began nuclear experiments, putting the United States in a fever when they heard about it. When Germany learned how to split…