This video called “Welcome to North Korea” by Peter Tetteroo and Raymond Feddema was the winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary and is a perfect follow up to my previous post, Kim Jong Il Should Die.
Things you’ll learn from this video:
It’s illegal for a citizen to look a foreigner in the eye in North Korea.
Music from loudspeakers wake the entire city of Pyongyang up at 7am every morning.
Elderly people and handicapped are shipped out of the city, or required to stay indoors.
Confucianism makes people extremely deferential to authority and hierarchy.
People boil tree bark and clay to put something in their stomachs.
The CIA admits “we know next to nothing about what happens in this country.”
6 hours a day training for little kids??!! The ghost city struk me the most. I have seen another great documentary about business men going to North Korea followed by a film crew who were shown a model village where everyone was “happy” and “healthy”.
A bizzarre twist of asian culture, but most westerners would be equally surprised and unable to understand how many more typical asian cultures regard individualism and human rights.
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This video called “Welcome to North Korea” by Peter Tetteroo and Raymond Feddema was the winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary and is a perfect follow up to my previous post, Kim Jong Il Should Die.
Please remind me why the CIA needs to know things about a country?
I’m sorry, but using a quote from the CIA doesn’t lend credibility to the story one it trying to tell.
6 hours a day training for little kids??!! The ghost city struk me the most. I have seen another great documentary about business men going to North Korea followed by a film crew who were shown a model village where everyone was “happy” and “healthy”.
A bizzarre twist of asian culture, but most westerners would be equally surprised and unable to understand how many more typical asian cultures regard individualism and human rights.