North Korean Documentary

North Korean Documentary

Today in class we started watching a documentary on North Korea. I have already watched this video before, back in my sixth grade social studies class. This video gave me nightmares back in sixth grade so watching it again for the first time since then was very interesting. Since then I have learned more about North Korea and how life is there. However, there are a few things that I picked up on watching it this time. For example, in the video it said after The Korean War, no peace treaty was signed so therefore the war is still technically going on, and North Korea still thinks their in control. One of the statistics that was mentioned in the video was that in the 1990's there was a famine and it killed about 4 million people, (that's about 10% of the population) and North Korea wouldn't accept any aid. That last interesting statistic that was mentioned is that the average 7 year old is 8 inches shorter and 22 pounds lighter than the average 7 year old in South Korea. That just shows how poor the nutrition is in North Korea. That was where we stopped today and we will continue to watch the documentary on Tuesday.