North Korean Propaganda

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I have found propaganda video from North Korea over the net and I really thought it deserved to be shared with you. This is so ridiculously biased that it turns out really hilarious. However, after a second thought, it's quite frightening actually.


I don't like the USA : This is a very shocking anti-American propoganda video made by North Koreans and previously broadcast on South Korean and Japanese Television.

Kim Jong Il video : This is a North Korean propaganda video about their current leader Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il's roses : In this video, three 'Genuis Kids' sing a song called 'Kim Jong Il's Roses' in a recent celebration of his birthday.

North Korean physical education dance video : This is a very bright and cheerful video of some cute North Korean children performing a very funny and interesting physical education dance. Peace! - used by legal permission.

North Korean High School girls : This is a very shocking and unbelievable video of some North Korean High School Girls marching in line to school while singing a song.
 
I saw the "physical education" video. Tssk, check this out: Faithless - I want more (perhaps it's not real North Koreans..).

I think the moves featured in "physical educational" movie was very individualistic. It also shows how much energy you can have while eating nothing.
 
Hakim said:
I saw the "physical education" video. Tssk, check this out: Faithless - I want more (perhaps it's not real North Koreans..).

I think the moves featured in "physical educational" movie was very individualistic. It also shows how much energy you can have while eating nothing.
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The Faithless video is indeed impressive. Actually, I think it's the video clip of the song made upon different sources of image coming from North Korea.

What is amazing with that country is how much it's able to waste talent and ressources in forbidding them to think. Look all those kids serving for the propaganda of a bunch of drunkard autocrats... How pityful... :shakehead

EDIT : After checking, it's indeed the new video clip from the music group "Faithless" for their single "I want more".
 
I like the way Kim Jong Il rides his horse. Really show's the powerfull leader in all it's glory. And the dancing video is really funny.
 
Damnyankee said:
i have seen quite a few north korean propaganda videos and each one is disturbing. they are brainwashed to the core. If the country was ever liberated, i would not know how the brainwashed masses would react
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According to me, the only solution to save North Korea can come from China. NK is dependant on China in almost everything. Actually, I think the best would be for NK to follow the same path than China (slowly liberating the economy, keeping the single party). This is the only way I can see for a peaceful reunification of both Koreas. It's simply impossible to do it in the German way (How dictatorial was Honecker, Kim remains in another category).

Unfortunately, the autocrats leading the country are so genuinely rogue that they are not even ready to follow that direction. I don't know who hold the stuff and I don't know how work the power inside Pyong Yang, but it seems that as long as Kim is there, it won't happen.

Knowing that NK should be pro-Chinese, I'm sure there are people more moderate inside the party who would be ready to follow the solution I've described above. However... how could they possibly reach power ? That is certainly the key question.

PS : For Americans, an invasion with massive bombings and a US military authority is NOT a solution.
 
I don't find any of them particularly remarkable. Except maybe the school girls marching and singing, but you'd expect that if a country was at war, and the perception in NK is probably that they are at war with the USA. And it's no more disturbing than God Save the Queen, Land of Hope and Glory or Rule Britannia. Also, the effing USA song is quite good. I mean, it's not unheard of for someone to make a video which is anti-American and calls Bush evil. It says the video was made by "North Koreans", but not the North Korean government, so can you say without a shadow of a doubt it was a propaganda film made to brainwash the masses? The North Korean kids singing the Kim Jong Il roses song is no more weird than your average Christian hymn... On the whole, this is not a show of brainwashing propaganda, but rather, one of rampant nationalism, and one you can find in any western democracy.
 
Mise said:
Also, the effing USA song is quite good.
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I must admit that the tune was quite catchy actually. In the end I was almost shaking my head in rythm. :p

That doesn't mean I support the message though.
 
Mise said:
I don't find any of them particularly remarkable. Except maybe the school girls marching and singing, but you'd expect that if a country was at war, and the perception in NK is probably that they are at war with the USA. And it's no more disturbing than God Save the Queen, Land of Hope and Glory or Rule Britannia. Also, the effing USA song is quite good. I mean, it's not unheard of for someone to make a video which is anti-American and calls Bush evil. It says the video was made by "North Koreans", but not the North Korean government, so can you say without a shadow of a doubt it was a propaganda film made to brainwash the masses? The North Korean kids singing the Kim Jong Il roses song is no more weird than your average Christian hymn... On the whole, this is not a show of brainwashing propaganda, but rather, one of rampant nationalism, and one you can find in any western democracy.
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The NK schools probably show videos of US students standing up and pledging allegiance to the flag, and everyone there says :eek: brainwashing!!
 
IglooDude said:
The NK schools probably show videos of US students standing up and pledging allegiance to the flag, and everyone there says :eek: brainwashing!!
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Yeah I agree with you. I hardly see any Western countries where we see on TV kids with flowers singing a song about how their president is great for their birthday...

... Especially when we know that people are eating wood noodles all over the country to try to survive. And I don't mention in here the working camps in NK which are as huge as whole cities.
 
Marla_Singer said:
PS : For Americans, an invasion with massive bombings and a US military authority is NOT a solution.
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Perhaps not a solution, but it is still an option! :king:
 
I actually don't know if the "I don't like the USA" video is state-sponsored or not.
 
Marla_Singer said:
PS : For Americans, an invasion with massive bombings and a US military authority is NOT a solution.
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It worked sixty years ago in getting one totalitarian country to stop it's expansionist tendencies.

Not many people in your neighborhood seem to remember it, though.
 
Personally, I think they were all taken out of context, and presented by the South Korean and Japanese media as propaganda against North Korea. For example, it does seem strange for 3 kindergarten kids to sing a song about roses and how great their president is. But it was "in a recent celebration of his birthday", which could well mean that they were performing FOR Kim Jong Il, i.e. doing a song and dance for Kim Jong Il would naturally be full of praise for him. The video with him on a horse could have been a party political broadcast, similar to ones we see in the West. Instead of showing him kissing babies and listening old war veterans (which show our prime minister/president's compassion), they show him riding a horse (which shows his strength as the leader of a military nation). I reckon the "I don't like the USA" video was probably not done by the government as propaganda, but by some guy on his computer like the numerous flash animations on the net, or the NoFX song, "Idiot son of an arsehole".

So when you put the at first sight shocking videos into a more understandable context, you then begin to wonder about the motive for the media showing those videos to South Korean audiences...
 
rmsharpe said:
It worked sixty years ago in getting one totalitarian country to stop it's expansionist tendencies.

Not many people in your neighborhood seem to remember it, though.
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So you're saying that 60 years ago the USA achieved a completely different objective to the one that Marla said you shouldn't do now? How is this relevant?
 
Any body ever see a class of 30 6 year old's stand up, put their hand over their hearts, and pledge allegiance to a flag?

Very disturbing.


And Quicktime is evil. I refuse to watch any quicktime movies.
 
Good lord!:shakehead Outrageous.
 
Neomega said:
Any body ever see a class of 30 6 year old's stand up, put their hand over their hearts, and pledge allegiance to a flag?

Very disturbing.
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Yep. Saw that every day when I was six, usually because I was somewhere in the classroom with my hand over my heart. Nothing disturbing about it.

I even knew what the words meant. :)
 
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