North Korea experts and North Korea fetishists will no doubt love “Welcome to North Korea,” a documentary film by Dutch journalist Peter Tetteroo (now available on Youtube, as seen above).
If you’ve got an hour to waste, give it a watch. I’ll probably watch it tonight.
(HT to reader)
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A Dutch video about North Korea that makes you doubt love?
Shouldn’t it be called, “Kim Jong Il stole my heart”, “Your warm regard feelings brings glorious harvest to the People’s land of freedom”, or something along those lines?
Nice correction, but I liked it the first way better….
Yeah, it did lend itself to fun comments.
Thanks for the head’s up, though.
“If you’ve got an hour to waste, give it a watch.”
More like “if you’ve got an hour to learn, give it a watch.”
About seven years ago, on a cloudy winter night I took my cheap shortwave radio on my veranda. The reception was really crappy so I touched the antennae to the metal rail and heard this song on North Korean radio…Listen to this song.
http://blog.empas.com/sun7845/.....;c=1512994
It was kinda creepy and cool and the same time…
I always wonder when I see one of these things if the movie maker realizes or cares at all that his or her guide will probably be sent to a re-education camp for having failed to have instilled upon him or her the spirit of the Juche ideology.
There is so much thinking about how unification can be achieved when the process has started. Germany is mentioned as bad example from the Korean expert. But you had to deal with people and many of East Germans wanted the Deutschmark. So it was undermining the eastern economy already and monthly the people were moving to the West before the unification happened.
Take the family issue in Korea, when they will have the tiniest chance they will try to meet. For me the anarchical element is underestimated once their is the slightest chance of real exchange. Travelling, money transfers, whatsoever.
There’s still the possibility that North Korea will end with a Romanian-style regime change. I’m sure North Korea has studied that angle from top to bottom, though.
My guess is that they are aiming for a Syrian-style succession where the old-guard pulls the strings from behind closed doors.