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There are many things wrong in North Korea when it comes to communism. We shall now take a look at those problems through English vocabulary.

There were many examples of propaganda in the short film that we watched in class on North Korea. Some examples included the fact that fairytales and fables were made up and presented as raw fact to the public. Ideas such as the fact that when Kim Jung Il died, many cranes flew into the sky to retrieve his soul. And that swallows flew to the monument. When someone asked where the birds were once he arrived there, they’d said that they’d just flown away. They asked farmers about swallows, but there were none at all. Furthermore, Kim Il Sung claims that when he was born nearby scouts felt a “wonderful presence” of a god of some sort. One carved an oath about this Korean “Jesus”. This was fifty years ago. Later, Japanese scientists were viewing the site, and one was a botanist. He said that it was not possible because the tree wasn’t fifty years old–the tour guide was speechless. Soon after, the tree was torn down and the site roped off for good.

Some censorship in the video was also the fact that a chaperon of foreigners advises that they stay away from civilians. Also, people aren’t allowed to look at each other and that thousands of civilains have to be checked before entering the “Friendship House”, children carry torches for their gymnastics, westerners are and were under strict surveillance, and only a selected one can talk to foreigners.