NORTH KOREAN REGIME
Origin:
On 17 of October of 1926, the
teenager Kim II-sung, stablized a political partie to defeat, as the official
Korean propaganda says, the Japanese imperalism. However, the real fundation
was in 1945, when it was created the Korean Comunist Party.
Kim II-sung became a kind of urban
legend. It is said that when he was 24, he commanded a militar unit that
captured a Japanese intruder poblation.
The Comunist Partie, supported by
the Soviet Communist Partie, started to grow up and finally made a coup.
3 Recent notices about North Korea
North Korea releases propaganda film
showing Washington under a nuclear attack:
North Korea released a new propaganda video
menacingly titled “Last Chance”, showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile
laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.
The four-minute video, set to jaunty
music, ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging
through clouds, swerving back to the earth and slamming into the road in front
of Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.
The US Capitol building explodes in
the impact and a message flashes up on the screen in Korean: “If US imperialists
budge an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nuclear (weapons).”
The video was published on the
North’s propaganda website DPRK Today and shows images from the Korean War, the
capture of US spy ship Pueblo in 1968 and the first crisis over North Korea’s
nuclear programme in the early 1990s
North Korea releases propaganda video
showing destruction of Seul
An official North Korean website has
released a new propaganda video portraying a multiple rocket attack on South
Korea’s presidential Blue House and other government buildings in Seoul.
The new 88-second video – entitled
“If the ultimatum goes unanswered” – shows rockets fired from mobile launchers
in the North destroying the buildings in a ball of fire.
It ends with the warning: “Everything
will turn into ashes”.
Tensions have been rising on the
Korean peninsula ever since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test on 6
January.
North Korea launches a missile as
leaders meet in the US to discuss nuclear seccurity.
North Korea appears to have fired another
ballistic missile off its east coast on Friday, South Korean officials said, as
regional leaders met in Washington to discuss the threat of Pyongyang’s nuclear
weapons programme.
South Korea’s defence ministry said
the missile was fired at about 12.45pm local time from near Sondok airport in
the east. The range and trajectory could not immediately be confirmed, a
ministry official said.
It is the latest in a series of North Korean missile launches during what has been an extended period of elevated
military tension on the Korean peninsula, triggered by Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test on 6
January.
North Korea’s Kim dynasty
The Kim dynasty is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership
descending from the country's first leader, Kim II-sung, in 1948. Kim came to
rule the North after the end of Japanese control in 1945 split the region. He
began the Korean War in 1950 in an attempt to reunify the peninsula. His
successors are his son Kim Jong-il and his grandson Kim Jong-un, actual leader
of the country after the death of his father in 2011.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_dynasty_(North_Korea)
What do they use to keep the regime?
They use a lot of tools to keep the regime “alive”. The main tool is
fear, achieved by constant threats. Another tool is to control the citizens’
opinions, liberties and acts by being on them. Finally, I will mention the
usage of propaganda regulated by the regime to try to wash the brains of the North
Koreans.
“Gulag”
Gulag (Russian word) it was a part of the Soviet Union that had to
regulate the penal code for forced labor camps. It has similarities with North
Korea, as this country also has this camps and the Regime is communist as the Soviet.
Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
Main Characteristics of a Dictatorship
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The
leader never mistakes
·
You will
love the leader above everything in the world
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Nothing
is private
·
Opinions
are invalid
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If a
person is disabled, it is sent to forced labor camps
Comparison between the life of a person living in North
Korea and my life in a democratic country
There are a lot of differences between both life conditions. In my
country you are free to have your opinion for almost everything without being
censured. We have as a leader a president, which we elect by voting and don’t
have to praise. In a democratic country, people have Internet and other
communication tools and privacy.
On the other hand, in a dictatorial country such as North Korea,
everything is controlled by the regime, even history. People must have only one
positive opinion of the country and the leader. They have one unique and irreplaceable
leader which must be respected and praised. Social inequality is really
present. People don’t communications are either forbidden or controlled. Finally,
secrets can’t be hidden and privacy doesn’t exist. Finally, if you are a “rebel”,
you can be highly punished (forced labor camps, torture or death).
If I were a teenager in North Korea, my schedule would be waking up in
the morning for going to school, worshiping the paintings of Kim II-sung and
Kim Jong-il I’ve got in my house. After having breakfast, I will dress up and
put my badge of the leaders and my school uniform. When going walking to
school, I would try not to look into other people’s eyes and stop in front of a
statue of the leaders to bow and worship them.
