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| North Korea Video Response Assignment |
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-north-korea/
Your assignment is the following. Watch the video, answer the following question in a blog post. What is life like for an average person in North Korea?
Life in North Korea is tough on most people. If you are poor and you have no money life really sucks because most people have no money therefore they can’ get food. Everyone is forced to obey the laws, but a lot of people don’t listen to them. They also have to respect the new dictator. If anyone is caught smuggling computers, radios, and thumb drives into North Korea are usually put into prison camps, some people are also executed.
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Living in North Korea as an average person is slowly becoming less and less uptight. By that, I mean that they are finding ways to smuggle in videos, and other sources that help expose the “outside” world to North Koreans. The videos are influencing them and are changing their views about the countries outside of North Korea. The people are still being strictly monitored by the government, and they have to be careful of their actions because they don’t want to be sent into a prison camp or executed for what they had done. Even though conditions for the “average” North Korean aren’t exactly ideal, their lives are still much more better than the lives of the North Koreans living in poverty, most of whom are homeless, hungry, and a good majority are children. Compared to the average American, I’d say that our lives are drastically much better than that of the average North Korean, because we have many more privileges than what they do, and we aren’t being dictated or monitored by the government like the North Koreans. Although North Korea is becoming less uptight like state before, there still is a lot of room for “improvement” in the way that the North Korean people are treated.
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Life in North Korea is completely different than in the United States. North Korea thinks of themselves as an independent nation and they don’t have to take orders from anyone other than Kim Jong-un. In North Korea, the people consider Kim Jong-un a god and he is the one and only. Compared to South Korea, North Korea is not considered paradise from the outside. North Koreans go about their day sheltered. They are not allowed to escape or leave the country. Kim Jong-un is the only leader and they worship him. He is the only one they can worship and he expects it. The sheltered life of a North Korean is like a 4 year old who wants to play in the street but his parents won’t let him.Another way to describe North Koreans life is brutal. Some kids who aren’t supported by their parents are thrown onto the streets. These kids must fend for themselves and find food. The kids in the video were crouching down on the side of the street while other people were just walking by acting like they weren’t there. Most of the people living in Pyongyang were rich and didn’t have to worry about finances but the people living in the suburbs were usually in poverty. Even though the government is very strict in the country, they don’t notice things being smuggled in. All of the stuff smuggled in is illegal and people take them home and watch them privately. North Korea is not the ideal place to live but they are a very interesting country to keep up with.
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In North Korea the average persons life is harsh. The people inside North Korea are brain washed with the government’s commands. They still think that there is still a Soviet Union, which Russia has not been the Soviet Union since 1991. The life expectancy is 9 years lower than the U.S. and three-fourths of the North Korean people do not have enough food to survive. Many Koreans do not have jobs and live on the street. Several children are abandoned to the streets because their parents are not able to take care of them. The only major jobs that you can get in North Korea is working for the military and paid very little. If the people of N.K. are not working for the military or living on the streets, they are living in a prison camp. If someone is caught making a crime, not only is that person sent to prison, but also there entire family and you live in that prison forever.
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Life in North Korea is terrible. There are people in the streets starving. If you break a rule then you could either get killed or tortured. People have to cross the border illegally just to give people stuff to sell. Some examples of all these things are.
ReplyDeleteKids that starve in the street have no food they barely have any clothes to survive the winter. If you do just the slightest thing like watch a movie you would get tortured. People have to go the extreme of crossing the border just to bring people food and stuff to do. If you ask me life in North Korea is harsh so how about the next time you throw food away you think about all those kids in North Korea.
Life in North Korea is terrible. There are people in the streets starving. If you break a rule then you could either get killed or tortured. People have to cross the border illegally just to give people stuff to sell. Some examples of all these things are.
ReplyDeleteKids that starve in the street have no food they barely have any clothes to survive the winter. If you do just the slightest thing like watch a movie you would get tortured. People have to go the extreme of crossing the border just to bring people food and stuff to do. If you ask me life in North Korea is harsh so how about the next time you throw food away you think about all those kids in North Korea.
AC
Living in North Korea for the average person is very difficult. North Korea has awful living conditions, and their leader is difficult to live under because he is so demanding. Compared to most countries North Korea is terrible. After watching the documentary on North Korea it made me realize how bad it is to live there. Families can not afford to keep their children so the children live on the streets. These children have to dig through trash piles trying to find food to eat. They have no shelter and no education making it nearly impossible to find a job when they grow up. Sometimes even whole families live on the streets. The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un is a horrible guy. He makes his citizens attend weekly meetings to honor only himself. His country is so bad he doesn’t want any information going outside of the country, the only things allowed to go out are what he puts out. The things he puts out for the world to see are good things, including this department store full of new clothing and many other goods. Nothing in the department store is for sale though, it is only to make him and his country look good. Kim Jong-un has his country basically brain washed into thinking he is a god and that everyone else is bad.
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The life for an average North Korean is very difficult, and routine. They are under communist rule by a man named Kim Jong Un whose father was Kim Jong Il. North Korea suffers greatly in poverty. During the 1990s there was great famine which resulted in extreme amounts of death. Kim Jong Un uses tactics of propaganda to make the Korean people believe that this is the best place on earth. That eventually ends in the process of brainwashing and extreme loyalty to their leader. North Koreans are very sheltered from the outside world, they have limited internet access which would suck. They also have limited television and radio access they have to be one channel. Kids are often orphaned and left to die and starve.
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What is it like to live in North Korea for the Average person?
ReplyDeleteIt is hard and very difficult. North Korea is one of the most impoverished countries in the world. There are many people in need of food and shelter. Compared to other places in the world, North Korea is one of the worst and the dictatorship worsens it even more. You have to wake up with very strict rules and if you make a slight change to them you could possibly be killed for your actions. There are also kids on the streets living without any food and have to survive in the cold. They have to survive without any parents which is very hard for them.
M. M
The daily life of the average north korean citizen is very hard. The people do not have any of the possibilities to do as they please, because they have almost no rights. The hardest part of their lives is just going on day to day. Getting a job is very hard, and many families cannot make enough money to take care of themselves. People starve to death daily, and their fellow citizens can do nothing to help. The government in North Korea does nothing to help, and does not permit people to leave the county to have better lives. The few who do escape can live successful lives, away from the poverty in North Korea.
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