Kim Jong-Un In North Korea

The country of North Korea compares rather closely to the world in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Both nations of people are very closed off from the community and the outside world. The citizens only know about what the government officials want them to know about. In North Korea everyone depends upon and worships their leader, Kim Jong Il, almost as though he is their god. They all only depend on what they classify as “we” and they rely only on that because they do not have access to anyone else or even know what it means to be an individual. In both the book and North Korea, the citizens are locked down and watched with a careful eye. Breaking the rules in Anthem would send you to the Uncharted Forest, which is very similar to what happens to those

In North Korea the people can only watch tv or listen to music run by the government. Also if you live in North Korea you cannot freely leave the country. Out of all of the things Kim Jung-Un does to abuse his power this stuck out the most if a person doesn't obey Kim Jung-Un's rules he does what he wishes with them. North Korea currently has 16 operating labor camps and prisoners are put there for something as simple as stealing a kernel of corn. Another thing he does is he will just kill you if he thinks you have committed some kind of crime.

This means that everything that creates the economy there is run by one group of people and that is the government. Most communist nations we have seen in the past do this for example the Soviets did this before there government crashed. China used to do it but has become somewhat lenient on it now due to it becoming one of the top factory made stuff in the world today. Anyway, North Korea is very strict on their economy for certain reasons. One is the don’t want any uprisings to happen that can throw off the leaders of the country and switch the power. North Korea also tries to make their economy very secretive even though there economy was left in the dust by their “evil step-brother” in the South by the mid 1970s. Like anyone wants to steal from an economy that was about 40 years ago?

They make people believe in things aren’t real just like King Jong Un does to his population. An example in George Orwell book was that 2+2=5, Orwell stated (1949) “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (page 81). This shows how much the government controls you and how they can manipulate the way people think. Just like 1984, North Korea makes the citizens believe things are true when they are clearly to anybody else in the world.The government is very careful with what they let in and out of the

Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, rules the country as a totalitarian leader. Kim started to gain obedience by presenting public executions to his citizens, the fear left nothing but to accept Kim Jong Un during his first 5 years of power. He prevents people from leaving the country and does not allow contact from the outside. In 2016 Kim built a barbed wired fence along China's border to prevent citizens from crossing and escaping North Korea, he is also working on block China cell phone services near the border. Domestic media in North Korea are state-controlled and foreign media is also strictly controlled and cell phone calls are monitored by Korean officials as well. North Koreans face serious punishment if caught with some foreign

If anyone goes against the leadership in North Korea the whole family and generations after them are punished. In North Korea, if a relative is persecuted for “anti-state” or “anti-socialist” crimes, then the family and three generations of the family can be punished for it. The aim is to remove from society the whole family unit to prevent any dissent from emerging in the future, and also to deter martyrs who might sacrifice themselves for a political cause, but would not want to sacrifice their whole family. (Liberty in North Korea) Many people change their minds about rebelling because they do not want to put their families at

Unlike the government system we are familiar with today, Hannah Arendt describes totalitarian governments as, “operating according to a system of values so radically different from all others, that none of our traditional legal, moral, or common sense utilitarian categories could any longer help us to come to terms with, or judge, or predict their course of action.” In a dictatorship like North Korea, the actions of Kim Jong-ii is very unpredictable and the people are expected to react accordingly without challenging his

North Korea appears on the international stage as a country existing beyond the world we all know. It isolates its citizens from the rest of international community and does not obey any rules determined by international law, but requires respect and recognition. Moreover, North Korea is one of the countries that remains aggressive towards its neighbors and applies various terrorist techniques, i.e. illegal contraband, political terror and mass abductions of other countries’ citizens in its foreign policy. The reasons for which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) behaves so unpredictably and irrationally are diversified. First of all, the DPRK as a country is managed very irrationally – regimes of Kim Il-sung and

“Dictatorship is a form of government that restricts the right to political participation to a small group or even to a single individual.” North Korea is well known for having a dictatorship as their form of government. This country is cut off from the rest of the world, “the founder of North Korea, first president Kim II Sung , created the country's policy of juche or "self-reliance," which has essentially cut off North Korea economically and diplomatically from the rest of the world even in times of great need such as famines.” “Between 150,000 and 200,000 North Koreans live in prison camps surrounded by electrified fencing, according to South Korean government estimates and Human Rights Watch.” The article also states that about 40%

Kin Jong-un stepped into the spotlight in 2011, when he inherited the position of the leader of North Korea from his father. Ever since, he’s been causing a stir in the global community. But who is Kim Jong-un?

North Korea has been the first country since the Cold war to threaten the U.S with nuclear war. In recent years there has been an increased rate of smuggled good such as laptops, radios, thumb drives, and more into the country through China. Filming on the Chinese side of the border is illegal. The contraband is used to attain information about the world outside of North Korea. Three quarters of the population have no food to eat and are starving, and this has led to illegal food markets. Kim Jong Un is the dictator of North Korea, and is thought of as God-like. At the start of his reign there was doubt by the citizens, they created propaganda videos promoting him and his likeness to his grandfather who was a very liked by the people. North

Along with this, severe limitations for international travel were put into place. North Korean society faced widening divides amongst the rights of various segments of society. Emphasizing this, the regime introduced the ‘Songbun' system, which is still in place today. Under this system, the regime organizes the people into a social caste structure based on the perception of loyalty to the government. The Kim regime silenced anyone who opposed the system. Free speech became punishable by an arrange of options, beginning at imprisonment and graduating to execution. “Even worse, when someone was arrested, up to three generations of their family would be sent to political prison camps.”

State media sources are tightly controlled so as to prevent the North Korean public from accessing any information that does not come from the country's strict government bureau of information, and this means that many North Koreans are grossly misinformed about the position of North Korea in the world and believe, for example, that their meagre lifestyles are preferable to the terrible conditions in other countries. Visitors to North Korea routinely report tight levels of control, with mobile phones confiscated for the duration of the visit and all movement tracked by an official government-supplied 'tourist guide'.

In North Korea the Government strictly controls all aspect of life through any means necessary with fear as the biggest factor.

Things in North Korea changed quite a bit when Kim Jong-Il became the leader. In 1994, Kim Sung-Il said that there will be no nucleur weapons for North Korea and, whether or not he was being truthful in his statement, no nucleur weapons were used before his death. When Kim Jong-Il rose to power, nucleur weapons began being tested. From 1994 to 1998, North Korea suffered from a famine and their economy was bad, and during that time Jong-Il adopted a "Military First" policy, putting their army first and ignored the fact that his people were dying from starvation. With each new Kim family leader, North Korea becomes more repressed and the government cares less about the people of North Korea and more about their military and nucleur weapons.