The name says it all


I've watched numerous documentaries about North Korea over the years. No matter who is telling the story the fact still remains that wherever these people go, whomever they talk to and whatever questions they ask, it's all controlled by the North Koreans. That, by itself, makes these documentaries all mere propaganda films themselves which only serve to bolster the worlds view of North Korea. It was even mentioned in this film, by a NK spokesperson, that sure all of the health care is free - but the NK government tells you which hospital you can go to. All of your education is free - but only at what schools they tell you can go to. Your housing is free, but only where they tell you you can live. Imagine for a minute that you want to make a film about the US military, you want to get opinions from everybody who has anything to do with the US military: contractors, military personnel, life on a military base and overseas, the appropriation and spending of money for armaments, the equipment they use. Now, imagine that you get the OK to make your documentary about the US military but you can only interview 3 career military generals at the Pentagon - that's it. And when you talk to them there are numerous handlers with you who have the power to make or break the general you are talking to with just one phone call. Do you think you'll get an honest answer from someone like that? Someone whose whole lot in life - their job, their status, their income, everything - depends on you saying the right thing in support of your country and the US military? Watching these documentaries you can easily read between the lines: the 4 lane wide super highways with 1 or 2 cars on them ( the narrator of this film does mention that on a 120 mile highway drive, they passed just 2 cars and 1 bus), the shiny new hospitals with no patients and nurses stations with no phones and no computers. The huge museums and hotels with nobody inside. The one other fact that's mentioned is that the population is divided into three classes, just like most world societies (no matter what you believe): There's the 'haves' - those who toe the Communist line, those who are loyal to Kim family and his policies and do not question anything ever. They are rewarded with the best jobs, the best pay, the best housing - the best of everything. The next group is the huge middle class. These are the worker bees who keep the country going. They have jobs and houses and they don't want to cause waves because they fear what will happen to themselves, or their families. The bottom is the dissidents. These are the people who are on the straight and narrow in the public, but in private they try to subvert the government and find out if the grass is really greener on the other side of the fence.
When the government provides everything for you from birth, and also tells you how to think, what to watch, what to read and where to work, you tend to not want to make waves and believe whatever you're told, no matter how much of a lie it is.

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Yet some people have managed to escape from North Korea, despite incredible danger.

What a bunch of ridiculous BS the North Koreans spew out. Disgusting.

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Those "lies" the NK PEOPLE spew out don't make them disgusting. That's really ignorant.


There are many more factors at play than even the OP pointed out. Care about your family? Better act very well. Or brainwashed? It's called trying to survive, what human instinct tells us to do above all else.


The disgusting North Koreans is the family that owns his population and holds them captive through manipulation.

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I think the biggest pitfall was them showing the director a Catholic church (not that I fell for the other propaganda devices). Not only was the congregation not wearing pins as pointed out, but they were all old people...not families or children; leading me to believe they were actors.

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