The Propaganda Game Page #4

the party members

and the real supporters

of the regime.

And then there's a wavering class

in the middle, the vast middle,

and then the undesirables

at the bottom.

And where you live,

what kind of job you have,

where you go to school,

that's based on your class.

There are three free benefits

in North Korea:

Free housing, free medical care

and free education.

Although there is free medical

care, there is no medicine to cure,

and with free housing you cannot

choose where you want to live

and with free education you have

to learn the ideology of the regime

even if you don't want to.

We salute him

when we go to school

and we salute him again

when we go back home.

He is the one

who loves us the most

us, the children.

Our father, General Kim Jong-il.

- North Koreans are brainwashed

from the minute they're born.

Almost the first thing

they learn to say is

"thank you, dear leader."

He is the one who loves us the most,

us, the children.

Our father, General Kim Jong-il.

Our father, General Kim Jong-il.

First it's education,

obviously it's very important,

since you are a kid,

that you grow up

and you learn to live

according to the ideology

to the communism.

Then, of course,

the education provided

not only by professors or teachers

but the mass media

or televisions, newspapers and so on

work on human values

and try to make the people better

in their daily lives.

We think that everything

that appears in the film,

all the workers and all the people,

must collaborate

in benefit of the people.

Propaganda can also be used

as a means of education

to contribute to the culture

of our citizens.

- Kim Jong-il was

very involved in film.

He wrote a book called Kim Jong-il

on The Art of Cinema

explaining how film

could be used to instill

patriotism in the masses.

They certainly recognize

the role of domestic propaganda.

The idea Juche,

created by Kim Il-sung,

was developed by Kim Jong-il.

It establishes the principle

that if we leave everything

in the hands of society,

the latter can decide everything.

It's a concept

that cannot be compared

to any other ideology of the past

or the teachings of Confucius.

- It probably began

in the idealism of a kind of

communism, but also

a kind of nationalism

and romantic historicism.

- It kind of started out

as kind of a humanistic

approach to philosophy,

a humanistic idea

that man was

the centre of the universe,

that man could go accomplish

all of his problems.

And it became...

Like Kim Jong-il as the worship

of the dear leader,

it really became

a way to control.

It's an ideology

that intends to combine.

Marxism Leninism,

the ideas of Mao Zedong

and religion.

Of course, to make

a combination of all

that you need to make it

so nobody can understand it.

If no one can understand it,

no one will protest against it.

It basically says

man is the master of all things.

And everything has to be done

in a peculiar way

which is suitable

for this current situation.

Wonderful.

Such a great philosophical

discovery.

And if you look at what North

Koreans write about Juche

you see it's a platitude

after platitude.

Juche ideology in North Korea

is like the Bible in Christianity,

it's like words from God,

so North Koreans have to believe

the Juche ideology

without any questions.

What they need to do

is to learn it by heart.

They know it,

and they can recite it,

like the Quran

or the Bible.

"I don't understand this."

No one dares,

much less so

in a country like Korea.

You don't understand it?

North Koreans

don't understand it either.

I had a strict education.

If I didn't believe

what I was being taught,

I was punished.

I can basically say.

Juche is nothing.

Because you can basically

summarize Marxism

but you cannot summarize Juche.

Is this clear?

Could you summarize, briefly

what the Juche idea is?

Are you a specialist in philosophy?

No, I try to understand.

The best explanation

is to see our reality.

It's better to know our country than

to listen to me a hundred times.

It's better to see our reality

than to listen to my words.

What you see here is

three huge doors,

metallic, that will close

in the event of a U.S. attack.

One, two and three

will be completely sealed

from the exterior, you see?

All these frames?

In case of attack,

everything is ready to use the

underground transportation system

to move the people

and shelter hundreds of thousands.

Maybe him?

Or all of them

at the same time?

Him?

Good morning, sir.

He is a director from Spain.

- It's a pleasure.

- The same.

He would like to ask you

some questions.

In many countries

especially in the Western world,

people are very impressed

with the love and reverence

of the Korean people as one family

united around their leader.

They cannot understand

the power of that unity.

What would you say

to those people,

in other countries of the world

that don't understand?

How can there be

such a single-minded unity?

I cannot think of a specific way

to explain it to the people

who don't understand us.

But if they came here,

if they saw the reality,

maybe they could understand us.

That would be worth

a thousand words.

It would be much more convincing.

What he says is true:

f you don't come,

if you don't see it,

if you don't ask the people,

you'll never believe it.

That is the strength of Korea.

- Most foreigners

have never met a North Korean.

Most North Koreans

have never met a foreigner.

The view that we have of them

is very negative.

The view they have of us

is even more negative.

- Where are you from?

- Spain.

Do you know where Spain is?

Why are you here in DPRK?

Because we want to know

how people live here.

We are very happy.

Are they as happy as we are?

Do they have a president?

In Spain are there also

people who love children?

All kids like you like football.

What is your favorite

Spanish league team?

- Koreo!

- No, Spanish league.

Barcelona!

Me, Atltico de Madrid.

Is it better and more beautiful

than here?

Some parts are similar

but this country is very beautiful.

So many foreigners

when they first come to our country,

they are just, you could say

surprised, at the realities.

When they come and see this

they say:
"This is wonderful."

When they come here

and they see the Korean people

wearing different dresses

they say:

"Wow, when I was abroad,

there was a propaganda that said

that Korean people had to wear

only one uniform,

you know, just like

one clothing, with no differences...

I think

foreigners need to come here

and see the reality.

- I understand

that especially with North Korea,

you've got so much misinformation

and so little information.

It's not so much misinformation,

I feel that any scrap of information

that the West gets,

it's like, well, they did this,

let's make a story out of it.

And there's no information on it.

- When there's a vacuum,

it's easy to create

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