Posted on 04/06/2013 10:24:06 AM PDT by Kartographer
1. Isolation nation 2. Mythical leaders 3. National prison 4. Daily life in North Korea 5. Difficult adjustments
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
"Education in North Korea is useless for life in South Korea," Gwak Jong-moon, principal of a boarding school for North Korean refugees, told Blaine Harden, the author of "Escape from Camp 14." "When you are too hungry, you don't go to learn and teachers don't go to teach. Many of our students have been hiding in China for years with no access to schools. As young children in North Korea, they grew up eating bark off trees and thinking it was normal."
North Korea insist on isolation BECAUSE if the people there knew they were the laughing stock of the world - off allowing themselves to be treated like dogs (or worse) they might rebel.
And their ‘leaders’? They push the mythical stuff to keep their boot squarely on the face of their citizens. It has NOTHING to do with them believing it. Totalitarian tool... period.
They get nothing but propaganda in NK schools, like ours are becoming
It was the same in East Germany, and the East still hasn’t completely caught up 20 years after reunification.
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I wonder how many NK peeps really think we Americans are the poorest and most starving country on Earth with people desperate to be more like them?
Trying to integrate NK into SK would need a 10-20 year transition, if it all happens at once, Korea would be impoverished again for a couple of generations. It is a much bigger difference than east and west Germany.
and remember East and West Germany never fought a war against each other.
But the Eat German’s knew that what they lived in was not the way. These people don’t know any other and most likely wouldn’t believe you if told them so.
It would take a heck of a lot longer than 20 years. It would be like trying to take someone suffering from profound mental retardation and putting them into MENSA. The damage done by the Kims to their people has virtually no equal in the past century, and the disconnect from their Southern brothers and sisters equally as vast.
You would be amazed how many Osties are deeply nostalgic for the GDR...
I once read a book about the Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who defected to Japan in his MiG-29. When he was brought to the US and driven around Northern Virginia, he thought that everything he was seeing was a made-up Potemkin Village for his benefit.
It boggled his mind that people could just walk into Safeway and choose from a dozen different kinds of canned beans and walk out again with a full shopping cart for so little money.
I can’t imagine taking a North Korean defector into an ordinary American supermarket with no period of Western acclimation.
We don’t really know the true population of North Korea. It may be way less than published.
The numbers to be integrated may not be severe
6. Extortion as a way of life
If they could not extort money from the U.S. with threats of aggression, their government would collapse.
Everyone on this site needs to read this article and get a glimpse of hell on earth.
Then you need to resolve never to give up your guns. When the day comes that the govt steps across the line and comes after us - and that day will come - you need to remember that if you give up and lay down that this is the fate that awaits you.
There are some things worse than death.
I’d rather go down fighting along side my family than live in a world like this. I will take as many of the SOB’s as I can with me, and no prisoners will be taken. Make sure that anyone illegally siding with the govt against the citizens goes down brutally, and goes down hard.
When that day comes be ready, lock and load and kill ‘em all.
You actually hit upon a good point because many millions of N. Koreans likely suffer from various levels of mental retardation as a result of long term malnutrition.
I escorted a group of visiting Georgian teens to a local mall in the 90’s, not really great by big city standards. They were nonchalant....... the availability of so much stuff and the apparent wealth of the ordinary folks was difficult to comprehend.
They were embarrassed at their own (Georgian) inadequacy. They brought along a puppet show to put on performances to earn their way. No one came to the heavily publicized shows. It was a fiasco and big financial problem for the American sponsors.
One of the kids showed up in my office seeking asylum. Big headache. The State Department sent an officer and asylum was ultimately denied.
30-40 at least.
People imagine the Norkies hate their leaders and are ambivalent about their country —that they’d welcome us as liberators.
COMPLETELY WRONG:
They are socialized from birth that they owe everything to the unselfishness of their wise and indefatigable leaders; the outside world is cold dangerous and bad, NK is warm safe and good.
They have NO competing information at all.
They’d each fight like honey-badgers to the bitter end. The war would make Tarawa seem like it had been defended by bi-curious hair-dressers.
By nature pan-Korea is passionate and tough. Culturally South Korea is Japan 50 years ago, North Korea is Japan 100 years ago —kamikazes ‘cept with a few nukes, maybe.
Expect NONE to throw down their arms.
Can’t we do literature drops or something? I had a former CIA agent as a teacher in college, who mentioned things like leaving Sears catalogs lying around in Russia, so people could see what was available in America. Could we drop the equivalent of a Harry Potter “Howler” letter, that yells information about the real world when opened?
Is anybody making any creative attempts to do anything? Because, if not, when it finally blows open, it will be a lot worse than if there had been some sort of gradual awakening.
“Trying to integrate NK into SK would need a 10-20 year transition, if it all happens at once, Korea would be impoverished again for a couple of generations. It is a much bigger difference than east and west Germany.
and remember East and West Germany never fought a war against each other.”
You don’t think citizens in East Germany were not subjected to propaganda?
It was called the “cold war” and the majority of easterners complied and became believers, instead of (dead-imprisoned) rebels.
The temporary transition problems are offset by long term benefits.
I think the conditions are so different in the north and south of Korea, that the citizens would want what the south has.
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