North Korea oppression?

Question

I've been watching ABC news all week, and Diane Sawyer is over in North Korea interviewing the public, and seeing what their life there is like. All the people she interviewed seemed normal, happy and proud of there country. Is it that they are so oppressed, they don’t know there oppressed, or is it that they are so fearful of there government their too afraid to speak out about how they really feel?

Answer 1

Sawyer's access to people and places are tightly controlled. She sees only what the government wants her to see. And anyone coming in contact with her knows what they are supposed to say.

I'm sure the top military people and some others are treated well and receive the best food, etc. the government has to offer. but it is an amazingly poor and oppressed country. People are always trying to escape. Think of that - escape from a country! Most places, if you want to leave, you just leave. That must tell us something.

Answer 2

those people have been brainwashed, and over centuries so that they don't know anything but their own life. They don't see anything of the outside world, they are not permitted to see anything from the outside world, no tv, no radio, nobody on the streets, etc. Right, they don't know they are oppressed. They feel like their government wants them to feel. This is what happens when an oppressive leader takes over. Was nearly that way in Iraq.

Answer 3

North Korea isn't a actual hazard to america. The North Korean have adequate issues of their own leaders that they do no longer prefer us invading and inflicting greater issues. If we had sturdy intelligence that the North Koreans have been able to, and silly adequate, launching a WMD against Japan (or yet another Allie) we could be justified in removing that hazard.

Answer 4

They show Nationalistic pride, much as a lot of Americans do. How they portray themselves may not always be how they really feel. Ideas and words have a strong power over people. Kim Jung II has made a great job in making his Nation believe him, though many may agree with him too. Think about our America, where Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have made Americans some Americans believe that dissent is appeasing the terrorists.

Answer 5

It is very clear to them if they utter a bad word they and their family will be relocated in a gulag. Read Aquariums of Pyongyang and you will get a good view of N. Korea. I remember wondering if the people in Eastern block countries like E. Germany were oppressed. After visiting East Berlin in 1979, I saw first hand how the strong arm of tyranny can turn a beautiful country into a real mess and the citizens are extremely aware. In North Korea, they risk their lives daily to escape. People like Diane Sawyer make me sick giving favorable propaganda to Kim Jong Il. Providing him propaganda is equal to giving Hitler favorable press.

Answer 6

These are people hand picked by the NK government to speak with ABC news. They are coached in their answers and you can bet they are completely loyal to the "beloved leader". ABC would never be allowed into the areas where people are being starved. This is an old tactic of Communist regimes as far back as Lenin's.

Answer 7

It's all an act. I recommend reading a book entitled, "Fishbowls of Pyongyang."

Every minute of every North Korean's life is scripted by the government. People go to labor camps for years if their picture of Kim is too dusty. Shame on ABC for falling for this ruse.

Answer 8

They know nothing better. If you lived in a box your whole life, never seeing anything else, that box would seem pretty good.

The government also runs quite a large propaganda campaign. Showing pictures of U.S. citizens eating out of garbage cans and the like.

Answer 9

fearful...like we will be here if we become a fascist state!!!!