We love to make fun of these assholes, but I often wonder why more isn't done about them.
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North Korea supported the Chinese Comunists during the Civil war and in return the Chinese supported the North during the Korean war. They share a very close relationship.
The rest of the world seems fed up with supporting the US as the world's police. The last thing we need us a war with the ChiComs primary ally only to have the rest of the world leave us twisting in the wind.
I heard recently that our debt with them is something like 8% of our total debt. Still, a significant portion of the world's population is being outright CRUSHED there, yet we worry more about money and our silly little relationships with other countries, many of which don't even need the extra reason to dislike us. Not to mention Chinese culture doesn't put much, if any, value on human life anyway, so eff what they think. /minirant
I would love to help this girl if she isn't already getting support already. I know there are a few places where you can support North Korean Refugees that just escaped from there. I can't remember where those sites were. If someone has any information on that and can link that to me that would be much appreciated.
LiNK is an organization dedicated to helping North Korean refugees come to US or South Korea and get back in touch with culture and help them kickstart a new life :) Hope this helps!
Park Yeonmi! I love her so much. She's really amazing and strong to speak about NK as an activist. I really support her for bringing attention to movements that aim to bring change and freedom to North Korea.
As I read too, her father died at the journey and she had to bury him in the night because she was afraid someone could find her and sent her back to North Korea
that is so depressing. the little 13 year old had to bury her dad and do it quickly so she wouldn't get caught. i feel so bad that things like this are still happening
The oppression in North Korea is unbelievable. The citizens are prisoners in their own country and are ruled with an iron fist. They are banned from having any knowledge of the outside world. They are allowed to love no one more than the ruling leader. Fed lies instead of food. Propaganda instead of knowledge. Starvation is rife. Absolutely tragic.
It's tragic to us, but do you think it's tragic to them? like, they don't know any better... they grew up with that and i don't think that they believe they are being oppressed or that there is anything wrong... and i don't know how i feel about that
Hiddlester, they do. There are children born in prison, who have to watch their parents get killed in front of a mass, because they are forced to watch these nice little "events". They do not know other, that may be true, but it doesn't mean they are not afraid and broken. Just because you grow up with it, doesn't mean you're not afraid of dying or torture. There are a few books and biographys from the little bunch of people (~30) who successfully escaped and survived. Why would people try to escape, knowing that the chance that they would die is maybe 90%, when they are fine with it? When they got nothing to compare?
@shawol two years ago in my government class, we watched a video of a guy that escaped and he told his story. then we watched a video of these eye doctors who took camera men with them and the reason they went was because they wanted to help people who had cataracts and they also wanted to secretly record people as they went about their lives. most everyone who was secretly video taped was so happy the whole time and they talked about how much they loved the dictator and stuff like that, so i wasn't aware that people were afraid and broken. i assume that everyone who saw a camera wanted to say nice things so they don't get into trouble, but they were told that the cameras were off... so part of me thought that maybe they honestly were that happy all the time, but what you said gave me a different perspective.
absolutely nothing. we focused on pre-civil war stuff for the first three months of the school year and then talked about europe for some reason and ended the year with a small one-class period lecture about North Korea and that was about it
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Fucking.
FEELS