What I listened to / read
One of my favorite authors is Wannasingh Prasertkul , he's Thai traveler who always take trips to dangerous and desolate places . Then, He writes all his experience about those places truly and honestly. I read his book which concern North Korea and I came up with tons of question about escaping from North Korea. To answer my question , I watched "My escape from North Korea".
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What it says
Hyeonseo Lee was born and grew up in rich family in North Korea. During the year of famine , she was sent to China and separated from family. She got away from China to South Korean safely. Unfortunately, Her family in North Korea was punished because the authority intercepted the money that she sent to them. She helped them to escape to South Korea but they were caught by Lao polices. At that time , she had money to bribe the polices but a stranger give her money and also help two other refugees to get out of jail.
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My response
North Korean is a sovereign state where the government control the economy ,military , politic and education. North Korea officially describes itself as a self-reliant , socialist state and formally holds elections. Their government tries to represent that their'place is plenty of food and their citizens love and respect to their leader, Kim Jong-un . So, Why are many North Koreans attempt to get away from their hometown ?
After listening experience of Lee, I feel really sorrow Then , I tried to search more information to know the actual life of people in North Korea . This country allow the foreigners in any nation (excepting South Korean) visit the country but they'll not allow their people to go out freely. They divide the economy into 2 parts which is international economy and domestic economy , thus the foreigners cannot hold their local currency and the citizens can use only their North Korean money. Moreover, all the things that they provide to the travelers is what they want us to do but it's not real.
In my aspect , The human right in North Korea is lower than other countries. However they try to make everyone have the equal status , there's some gap between the rich and the poor. Because of developing of technologies , many countries have to cooperate for supporting their own population. North Korean's leader and government opposes and denies to collaborate with developing countries. This affects to their people 's life in negative way.
A lot of North Korean citizens died from starving but the leader still spends money for increasing the strength of military. The kids have to learn the leader's profile intensively and rarely study about other countries. Theses lead finite knowledge and narrow attitude to the citizens. That's why some North Korean people have to escape from their country.
A question came to mind as I read Fern's response.
ReplyDeleteWho is better able to understand North Korean affairs: the citizens of North Korea or foreigners?
Similar questions worry me about Myanmar and other undemocratic nations that do not allow free speech and a free press, although the leaders of few nations today prevent their citizens understanding domestic issues as much as much as North Korea's do.
I totally agree with Fern's thought.
ReplyDeleteEven North Korea government said that they took the authorize by Marxist system, but, in fact, it is obvious that there are a lot of differences between Marxist and North Korea politics. Marxist is political policy base on the equality of each people in all points of life including freedom to live, do, thought and rights whereas North Korea have a lot of gap between rich and poor. the government controls the people minds and limits the freedom what the people needs and publish out both of citizens and foreigner. this regime leads to the old-fashioned of development and destroy the progression of human security and development. Excluding from the country development view, the government by one family for a long period is obvious that they are corrupting the country which ultimately results in the failure of economy and reduce the quality of North Korea citizen.