Transcript North Korea

North Korea
The Real Oceania
By Mr. Arizmendez
• Things began to fall apart
in the 1990’s after the fall
of the USSR.
• Korean economy begins
to fall apart as a result.
Background
• Famine takes hold of the
country from 1990 to
2005.
• Korea falls into darkness,
literally. With no fuel aid
from the USSR, the
energy infrastructure
breaks down. The
massive power outages
that darken the country
become a part of regular
life.
North Korea is dark
• Kim Il Sung
1948-1984
• Kim Jong IL
1984-2011
• Kim Jong Un (12/2011-)
(Named “Sexiest Man Alive”
by the Onion Newspaper)
The Kims-Supreme Rulers for Life
• Propaganda poster are found
everywhere.
• Public executions are
announced for several days
over loudspeaker and people in
the area are told to attend.
• Kim Posters are in color most
everything else is black and
white.
• Each person is required to
carry a “citizen’s certificate”
everywhere they go.
• “We will do as the party tells
us.”
Quote from an actual
propaganda
billboard in
North Korea.
• Sexuality is stigmatized.
Kissing is forbidden in movies
and television. Couples date
for years before even holding
hands, some wait up to five
before kissing.
• Teens are encouraged to join
“The Socialist Youth League.”
They help to report non party
activities and ensure that all
North Korean are not violating
the national dress code.
• Workers must spend two hours
of Ideological Training after
work in their factories
auditorium.
Just like Orwell’s 1984
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Say something against the government,
earn a three day interrogation complete
with beatings.
Many workers go to work and do not get
paid!
Doctors must find and pick their own
herbal medicines to prescribe to their
patients.
By 1996, dogs and frogs were nearly
extinct in N. Korea. Reports of
cannibalism surfaced in the late 1990’s.
During the famine of the 1990’s, people
began to eat many unusual “foods”
including the corn cobs, corn husks, grass
and weeds, and pine tree bark!
Private car ownership is illegal.
Bizarre World
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You must have a “Travel Permit” to spend
the night at a friends house. This policy
discourages pre-marital sex.
Between 1995 and 2008, the United States
provided North Korea with over $1.3
billion in assistance: just over 50% for
food aid and about 40% for energy
assistance. Aid ended because of new
plans for rocket programs and nuclear
development.
Many teens in N. Korea have heads that
are too large for their bodies. This is a
common side effect of malnutrition and
starvation.
12/13/12
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea successfully
launched a rocket on Wednesday, boosting the
credentials of its new leader and stepping up the threat
the isolated and impoverished state poses to opponents.
The rocket, which North Korea says put a weather
satellite into orbit, has been labeled by the United
States, South Korea and Japan as a test of technology
that could one day deliver a nuclear warhead capable
of hitting targets as far away as the continental United
States.
"The satellite has entered the planned orbit," a North
Korean television news reader clad in traditional
Korean garb announced, after which the station played
patriotic songs with the lyrics "Chosun (Korea) does
what it says".
The rocket was launched just before 10 a.m. (0100
GMT), according to defense officials in South Korea
and Japan, and was more successful than a rocket
launched in April that flew for less than two minutes.
In The News
After this slide show, I
can expect that every
person in this class will
no longer confuse N.
Korea with South Korea.
North Korea-Scary
Depressing and
Oppressive
South Korea- hip and
happenin’
A reporter sneaks into North Korea by bribing Chinese border officials.
Renegade reporter Shane Smith did the impossible and
snuck into North Korea in 2011.
“Getting into North Korea was one of the weirdest processes VBS
has ever dealt with.”
Shane Smith
1. Answer the questions on the article entitled “Nothing to
Envy.”
2. On the same paper, Write a short three paragraph essay
with a thesis on the topic: What do you think should be
done about North Korea?
Article Reading and
Writing Assignment