North Korea
The article we read in class is not the first one I read about North Korea. In this article the author kept positive compared to the other article. He said that Christianity can be the solution for a unified Korea. Reading that North Koreans can’t access to anything such as internet, trips, books, or a “normal” education seriously freaked me out. For me one of the most impressive stuff I read about is that they have like their own god, which was actually a person and their head of state his name was Kim Il Sung, they still worship him all times and call him “The Great Leader”. They also have 10 commandments like Christians do and worship also his son Kim Jong Il like Christians worship Jesus.
Korea is bordered in the northern side by China, and Russia, that’s why North Korea adopted the communist position. By the other side, South Korea was occupied by the USA that’s why they went better for the democratic position. In 1950 they had a civil war to unify the Koreas, North Korea invaded South Korea during three years, well actually we can say that officially the was isn’t over yet. That war turned to be USA, South Korea and 16 more nations vs. North Korea, Russia, and China. They had no peace treaty but they did have an armistice. South Korea became an international power, but North Koreas has declined in the economic perspective, also they live in poverty and starvation.
As I said above, the population is ignorant of what is happening in the world. I read in the other article that they can’t change of village or visit other cities. Obviously getting out of North Korea for normal people is impossible, and when the state people gets out they are prohibited from telling other people how the world is outside North Korea. Tourists can’t access North Korea, or have you ever seen a promotion to North Korea in any travel agency? Then the mass media is controlled by the government and they only transmit negative news form the world. Foreign books and photographs are forbidden. Every North Korean is monitored by the surveillance system. Disloyalty to the Great Leader is criticized and punished, and the prisoners are taken to a camp for political prisoners, from where they say very few come back.
This author keeps positive talking that religion can unify the Koreas. He proved the statement by talking about some Christians missioners that went to help the population.
