North Korean Documentary Day 2
Today in class we finished watching the North Korean documentary. We left off when the camera crew and reporter visited one of the blind patients house. They went into the house and there were no family pictures, or any pictures for that matter except for their leaders. They couldn't ask questions about the leaders, but they careful asked questions to the family about life with blindness. After a few questions they watched a performance by the granddaughter of the patient. After that the documentary went in to talking about "Juche" which is the government's philosophy that Kim il Sung implemented. "Juche" means up yours but to put in better terms it means that they are self reliant and that they don't need anybody else. Other major points in the documentary were when they talked about concentration camps.When a person commits a crime in North Korea their family is sent to a concentration camp. Food and supplies are scarce and you never leave, you stay basically until you die. There was a previous guard of Camp 22 on the documentary that explained how the camp worked and the kinds of things he saw in the camp, and he was able to escape through China. Then there was a scene where one of the North Korean border patrol escaped through the electric fence into South Korea. The last thing they showed in the documentary was what happened after performing the cataract surgeries. After the bandages were taking off the people thanked their great leaders for their eye sight, when really it was the doctors that performed the surgeries. I thought that wasn't quite right, but then again what is right about North Korea? After the video we discussed the end of the quarter which is Friday, and what our grades look like. That was all for class today.
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