North Korea, despite threatening the U.S., is continuing life as normally as possible. “Life,” can’t really be considered normal when we are talking about North Korea, but it is continuing nonetheless. The U.S. and other allies of the western world are portrayed as the bad guys to the citizens of North Korea and they continue to accept the propaganda as the truth even though it has very adverse effects. North Korea has 1.1 million troops and 10,000 artillery pieces capable of hitting South Korea’s capital of Seoul. Obviously North Korea is focused mainly on their military, even though their economy is what really needs help. A good public service job in North Korea makes about 3,000 won a month, or about 50 American cents, and with no work being put into helping the economy, this situation looks to not be improving anytime soon.
Question: Why do you think that Korean citizens accept this to be the 'norm'?
"Inside the Cult of Kim; North Korean Tensions." The Economist (US) 6 Apr. 2013: 47-48. Print.
11 comments:
I think Korean citizens accept this because it is what they have grown up in, so it would clearly seem normal. If some would think it to be unfair, they wouldn't do anything about it due to consequences to follow.
I believe that the North Koreans would except this to be the "norm" because they don't know any different. Everyone who isn't a communist country is shown as a terrible, terrible place to them. They were taught to believe that and that's the way they grew up so why make an effort to change things that have always been?
I believe that the North Koreans accept communism as the norm because that is all they know and all they have ever experienced. Also, they are so closed off from the rest of the world some of them may not even know how bad their quality of living is. Due to these reasons they don't fight it and accept it as how things are and how they always will be.
I don't think the North Korean's know any better. They are cut off from the rest of the world. They do not even have an expansive internet. They have no way of knowing any different than what they already experience. They can't even leave the country to experience the world.
I believe that Korean citizens accept this to be the norm because, that is honestly all they have ever known. They had grown up in with everyone else and don't know anything else.
The Korean citizens were born and raised in that situation so they assume that is the way like is. They don't have much fact to compare their life to ours.
The Korean people probably accept it as their norm because they do not know much else of what they have grown up with since they are sheltered from the outside world.
They are not educated enough to know that this is not right. Their leader keeps them in the dark.
The people of North Korea don't have much of an idea of a different lifestyle. They are unaware that the conditions they live under are not morally correct.
Sadly, I think the "norm" is just that, the normal life for them. They either don't know much better or they are scared to death to go against it. Just like the move everything is monitored for the most part and generations have grown up this way and have learned that this is the normal and don't question it. I feel for them because a lot are naive I belive.
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