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.”
Matt says
April 22, 2011 at 11:12 pmGod, 6 posts, 6 fools.
You hate Kim-Jong Il, I hate the internet.
I HATE kim jong says
May 22, 2010 at 8:00 pmkim jong seems to mirror hitler? Wouldn’t it be nice to assemble a team of scientists to figure out the most horrible painful and disgusting way a human could die then, help kim jong realize some stuff about being human in the 21st century by video taping his awsome death and letting the images float freely about the internet!!! This would excite me to no end as the thought makes me smile now as I write this.. Because this creature still exists, we will all suffer soon enough from world war! This “shit for brains” has simple child-like thoughts. As soon as he realizes he has 6.5 billion bullets(nuclear stuff), he now believes he has the chance to control this planet of humans!! This is a simple, child-like mind with the power and thought of war against the world if so be. I believe if this misfit is not killed, WE WILL ALL SUFFER. This idiot loves nuclear armament! He does not give a rats ass about you or even his own people. Press the frickin’ button now before the death toll surpasses both world wars combined.
Robert Geczi says
November 29, 2009 at 5:26 amI am currently living in China, and the worst we get in terms of “loudspeakers” is the library chimes going off at 8:00am, and every hour after that. And on occasion, a “warning siren” that would go off in case of an emergency, during their testing times.
rose ann says
November 29, 2009 at 12:14 ammore power on your government
RHB says
April 21, 2008 at 1:54 amA 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.
Ilia Boyko says
April 19, 2008 at 7:04 pm6 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”.
Gordon J Milne says
April 19, 2008 at 5:17 pmPlease 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.