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.”

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Kim Jong Il, the North Korean DICtator, should die - or at the very least be overthrown. Why do I say this? Because no one in North Korea is allowed to. Oh, and because I think that he, and the entire regime that props him up, is a fascist pig on the same scale as Hitler. Hell, there are 200,000 political prisoners, and you can be jailed just for saying “I’m not so sure I like our dear leader.”

Here is the evidence. The following series of 5 videos comprise a CNN report called “North Korea Undercover in the Secret State“. Warning: this is NOT for children, and proves what Frederick Douglass said 150 years ago:

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”

The series includes a number of hidden camera videos including actual public executions for helping people escape from North Korea, and depictions of the results of famine. Allowing Kim Jong Il and his criminal government to stay in power is the equivalent of allowing the mafia to own and control an entire country.
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I wish this article was some sort of political commentary, but unfortunatly I’m just reporting the news, not referring to President Bush as a dictator or anything like that.

In addition to the illegal wiretapping and other abuses of freedom the Bush administration has undertaken, a political watchdog group called the Center for Research on Globalization has pointed out that the White House released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive on May 9th, 2007 in which George W. Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency”,

“The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. “

The language would create a Presidential dictatorship in the case of such an emergency by placing the executive branch in control of the coordination of the legislative and judicial branches - branches which constitutionally are equally empowered to the President.
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