Kim Jong-un

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…

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…

Kim is an extremely hard and productive worker. During the course of her daily duties, she is always working on some type of project and has little downtime. One major project that Kim has been very passionate about this year was a purge on old firearms. Kim has invested a tremendous amount of work organizing, categorizing, researching, and documenting firearms that are in need of destruction. Outside of these extracurricular projects Kim is meticulously detail orientated. She ensures that even…

In the narrative entitled, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick focused on the fact that Chang-bo did not feel that the people in the government of the dictatorship were truthful, fair, or kind to the citizens. It also mentioned the consequences of the words that were spoken by him. On the other hand, his wife, Mrs. Song, felt as if the ways of the government were sufficient for the society, and that the officials in the government of the dictatorship were not being…

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…

North Korea and its leader Kim Jung Un are a society of very overwhelming power. The citizens bow down to their leader and give him the power over themselves and their lives. North Korea also has prison camps that they send people who disobeyed them off to. At these camps there are distortions of thoughts that the government forces onto the people. They do this because they think that everyone should only believe in what they tell them. In George Orwell’s 1984 he predicts of what he believes the…

citizens live much differently compared to western civilization. North Korean citizens live through widespread hunger with little to no help from their government. On the contrary, the government forces propaganda into their citizen’s minds giving the Kim leader a god like status, all while enforcing strict laws alongside cruel punishments. Socioeconomic status, region, and different demographics including loyalty to the supreme leader place citizens into their level of the caste system. The…

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…

half at the 38th Parallel. Russia would take the northern half and the United States would take the southern half. “In 1948, when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established, Kim Il-Sung became the first premier of the North Korean communist regime.” (Encyclopidia Britanica , 2014). At first Kim Il-Sung would follow his Russian supports in a communist regime, soon though his leadership would change from being Pro-Russian to Pro-Chinese to finally self reliant. Joche or self…

The biography “Escape from Camp 14” explains the life of Shin Dogn-hyuk. Shin was born into the North Korean Concentration Camp, Camp 14. Shin spent much of his life in the camp, raised to be an animal, and fighting for his own survival. The biography written by Blaine Harden depicts the cruelty and unfathomable events that make up Shins’ young life. As graphic as the novel is, it is still a New York Times Bestseller. “A gripping story, unsparingly told” is how Bill Keller from the New York…