By Adam 10-1

She talked about her life under communism, and she was born in the capital of North Korea. Her father was an assistant of King Jong Ils. When she was 6 years old, her father was political prosecuted by the government, so they escaped to China in 1998. In 2001, her father was arrested by China police and sent back to North Korea. There he was sent into prison for three years. After he was released he returned to China and their family united again. Then not long after their family united again, her father decided to go back to North Korea to spread the idea of life and freedom. In 2006, his work was discovered by the government and he was in prison again and since then she heard no words about her father. Then she guessed her father was shot in public on TV. In 2001 when her father first time arrested, she was adopted by a Chinese family. In year 2007 her adopt family moved to America, and she get a chance to go to South Korea.

  6 years in North Korea, 11 years escaped in China and now in South Korea. A 18 years old student was the victim of communism. In her words that we can tell life under the North Korea communism is horrible, people’s right had been taken away. In her words we can heard the sadness of North Korea, she didn’t say any bad things about North Korea, she is just telling what happened to her and her family. His father is a hero who believed in freedom and died for his faith. In her words that we can see the dictatorship of North Korea.

  My Opinion:   In the video we can hear she used the word

“Danger” to describe her hometown. Life in North Korea is danger to her and her family. I think she feels sad about a country break into two and the human rights are taken away by their leader Kim Jong ils. In her words we can image her life of escaping, but we can hardly really know what North Korea is like. In her speech, there is no bias, because she is just talking about what happened to her and her family. There is no much of opinion of North Korea here, even though she was the victim of North Korea, she didn’t judge her country, and all she did we saying her feelings and what she was hope for. This is not the extreme examples, so I am going to find the people who really hate North Korea.

Different Ways of Seeing North Korea

  Kim Duk Hong was a highest ranking defect who escaped to South Korea in 1997. He first escape to Beijing, then to South Korea. He said that Kim Jong Ill is killing people who disagree with him and control the country with absolutely power. He said that Kim Jong Il doesn't care that people are starving and poor. He spent almost all the money on nuclear weapons. He even said that Kim Jong Ill is a devil and had no sense of humanity.

  He even thinks that other nations should not provide food, medicine to North Korea through Kim Jong Ill. He agreed with the Americans blocked the economy of North Korea. In his opinion war with revolution is the only way to end the age of Kim Duk Ill.

  North Korea is the only country that refuses to open the market and that makes the North Korea becomes the most isolated country in the world. North Korea is also the most militarized and the lowest human rights record country. It is also the country which is still use communism ideas for its economy.

  On the North Korea street there are only a few cars. Most of the North Korean People hate America and they really like their Great leaders, you can see their pictures in the MRT in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. MRT in Pyongyang

  People had no right in choosing their jobs and every day on the street you can see the posters, status of the leader of North Korea, Communism sign, and before enter the government owned factory there are some people standing outside and singing about the great victory of North Korea.

People singing outside for the Great victory of North Korea

  Not even the posters, in the education you can see the brain washing ideas of how great their leader was. They start brain washing in a very early age.

A teacher brainwashing her students

The picture showed that the factories in North Korea are lack of electricity and that slows down the production of the factory in North Korea.

  1. Powerful North Korean Student Testimony // The 3rd Lausanne Congress CapeTown South Africa 2010 - YouTube. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 21 Nov. 2010. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KEFbo2tJ_8>.

  2. "North Korea." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc., 29 Oct. 2011. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea>.

  3. "North Korea Tourism Video - [Hillarious] - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Youtube Inc., 6 June 2010. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HK3Ttb43OI>.

  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzDqbMUlrU   5. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/them/defector.html