Kim Jong un "Looking At Things"

[freeradical]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XKrTlp8GM

[miK.]

Sometimes, he even points at things.
http://kimjongunpointingatthings.tumblr.com/

[JoeM]

Shopping List:
Quart of milk... Kimchi... Korean BBQ...

[polychrome]

Haven't seen a list of his greatest achievements yet. Still boggles the mind that his father, Kim Jong-ll, had 11 holes-in-one and a 38-under par on his first try at golf, and that he never had to poop or urinate. He was amazing.

[Black]

These pictures depress the hell out of me. Imagining what it's like to be trapped in the hell that daily life must be over there. I assume one just adapts and makes peace with it to whatever extent possible, but that's almost more horrible in a way.

[Speedy]

Brainwashing. People believe because they want to thanks to well honed propaganda put out hour after hour on TV, radio and newspaper.

Black wrote:
These pictures depress the hell out of me. Imagining what it's like to be trapped in the hell that daily life must be over there. I assume one just adapts and makes peace with it to whatever extent possible, but that's almost more horrible in a way.

[Black]

Speedy wrote:
Brainwashing. People believe because they want to thanks to well honed propaganda put out hour after hour on TV, radio and newspaper.

[quote=Black]
These pictures depress the hell out of me. Imagining what it's like to be trapped in the hell that daily life must be over there. I assume one just adapts and makes peace with it to whatever extent possible, but that's almost more horrible in a way.

We don't know that. We don't know what they say in hushed tones behind closed doors.

[Speedy]

Black wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Brainwashing. People believe because they want to thanks to well honed propaganda put out hour after hour on TV, radio and newspaper.

[quote=Black]
These pictures depress the hell out of me. Imagining what it's like to be trapped in the hell that daily life must be over there. I assume one just adapts and makes peace with it to whatever extent possible, but that's almost more horrible in a way.

We don't know that. We don't know what they say in hushed tones behind closed doors.
No, but:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/north-korea-human-rights-abuses-stories-un-brainwashed

"To control the flow of outside information, all TV sets are registered with the state, which modifies them to ensure they receive only approved channels. As another witness said of life in the nation: "You are brainwashed, [you] don't know life outside. You are brainwashed from the time you know how to talk, about four years of age, from nursery school, brainwashing through education, this happens everywhere in life, society, even at home."

>>>>

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/world/asia...ganda-lah/

"North Korea's propaganda machine grips defector 11 years on

Seoul (CNN) -- To the outside world the images from North Korean state television are nearly comical -- weeping soldiers chasing Kim Jong Un into the freezing sea, elderly women screaming as the young leader approaches, and North Koreans unleashing dogs at a poorly made effigy of a South Korean leader.

But as Chae Young Hee watches, her eyes begin to brim with tears and her lips tremble uncontrollably with national pride.

Chae is not a North Korean anymore, having defected to South Korea 11 years ago, abandoning the totalitarian regime.

In the North, she experienced starvation, the brutality of the regime and fled with her daughter in hope of a better life in the free world. But as Chae watches KCTV, the North's only television channel its citizens can view, the power of the propaganda she grew up with takes hold.

"They're God," she says, referring to North Korea's trinity, Kim Jong Un, his father Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung.

The tears are now running down Chae's perfectly made up face and she chokes back a sob. "This is how you are brought up since birth. Even I can feel the pull in my heart. I thought I forgot about this feeling since it has been so long.

"But seeing this now, I feel I'm back in North Korea. I don't know how to express myself. He is really great and I feel we will all die without him."

Chae stops talking and asks for a glass of water. She tries to compose herself.

"I know their sincerity," she says, as she watches a group of soldiers sing and sway before Kim, their faces red with emotion and streaked with tears. "This is not a lie. It is not an act. It is real. If anything happens, they will give up their lives. They will even jump into fire."

Chae seems to fall into an other-worldly trance, unable to answer questions as clearly as she did before the North Korean television started to play. She watches children's programs, which always have the evil American or South Korean villain that must be defeated. Prime-time movies are often war movies or romantic tales where the North Koreans defeat the American imperialists.

When North Koreans watch news on the dear leader, they believe in it. We live because of him.

Chae laughs as she sees a program she recognizes from her childhood, a clay action movie where an adorable North Korean cat defeats the evil South Korean rats.

Watching her slip back into her time as a Pyongyang resident is a window into how the North Korean regime manages to maintain its seemingly unyielding hold on its people.

"Even if I tried to explain this, I don't think people here would understand. They won't think this is real," she says, watching a news clip of adoring citizens waving flowers and rushing to the young leader.

"But this is true. That is the truth. And we can't think for ourselves. When North Koreans watch news on the dear leader, they believe in it. We live because of him."