Kim Jong-il

Failed States index (FSI) uses a number of political, social and economic indicators to evaluate a state’s fragility, with North Korea satisfying majority of the indicators. Using these indicators, it demonstrates that North Korea is a failed state. Firstly, the economic assessment of North Korea is described as scepticism. North Korea does not release official economic data. However, based on the Congressional Research Service (CRS) findings in 2015, they suggested that DPRK had experienced a…

As New York Times (NYT) says, “North Korea may be the most oppressed nation in the entire world,” this article will demonstrate to you why. Everyone already knows that North Korea is a strict and highly censored country. Canadian Journalists For Free Expression (CJFE) says, “To call North Korea an authoritarian environment would be putting things mildly.” An authoritarian environment means that the people of NK have to have a strict obedience to authority, especially in a government. Freedom…

by our international community. “High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn 't bomb the rail lines to Hitler 's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il 's camps, and did nothing.” (Harden back cover). In the centuries ahead we will learn about how our nation failed the people of North Korea, and about this hidden genocide as well as how it could have been stopped. Hopefully the next…

North Korea and China’s society would be categorized as a dystopian society due to its current conditions. In North Korea, the government has mass surveillance, a worshiped figurehead and conformity. Alongside, China’s society is being manipulated by the media, people live under conformity, and are dehumanized. These situations are overpowering a healthy way of living. The way people see things and do things are now manipulated because of the way North Korea and China’s government lead. A…

This quote states that military dictatorship is born by force and not democracy. This concept is present in both books were the government is dangerously powerful and uses any means necessary to scare its own people in doing what they want them to do. Writers of dystopian novels often write stories set in the future to warn us about the potential hazards of the choices we are making TODAY. The novels, Surviving Antarctica, and Legend both depict a future in which government has become…

The novel “A Kim Jong Il production” by Paul Fischer emphasizes in kidnapping, films, tortures, and leaders in the country. There are two couples from South Korea who are film makers known as Shin Sang-OK and Choi Eun-Hee, who were kidnapped by the great leader of North Korea, and brought to Pyong Yang to make successful films. Shin was popular at filming good movies and Choi was an actress, but turned out to film with Shin after they were both kidnapped. However, Kim Sung became a leader of…

incident, an American tourist took down a propaganda poster as a “trophy”. This was an act that would normally incur a minor punishment from a government like the United States. In North Korea, this crime is a different story. According to Hyung-Jin Kim, “This tourist has now been sentenced to a fifteen year prison sentence, with hard labor for subversion”(1). Many countries now have some sort of issue with North Korea. One state that has many more than just one issue with North Korea is…

However, the theory of North Korean connection to the Sony hacking as a consequence of North Korea outraged of Sony film, The Interview, where two American aspiring journalists are recruited by the Unites States government to murder their leader Kim Jong-Un. The FBI has confirmed North Korea’s involvement; however, the hacktivist’s have not been captured. North Korea may have not have been behind the assault, affirming its administration 's refusal of any association to Sony’s attack. On the…

document. The government told us not to print the story on regime tensions, lest that lead to a purge in North Korea that could eliminate key sources of information, or incite regional instability. This document deals in detail of tensions between Kim Jung Un and the North Korean military. I recommend suppressing the document since the extent to which the tension is true remains unclear. Publishing the document will lead to unnecessary purge and violence in North Korea. Also, it can worsen the…

all it takes to aid this situation. The potential risks involved are North Korea are prepared to go on war with different countries just to defend their existing system. The North Korean news media (Korean Central News Agency) which is founded by Kim Jong Un has shut down its website and the countries television stream has stopped. This is very risky as we do not know what has happened. It could be propaganda tactics being used by the country as they have been known to do so or it could be in…