The Propaganda Game Page #5

and make it believable.

Sometimes they are created

as a parody,

and it still rings true.

Why, because we just know

so little about the country.

North Korea is an unimaginable

country.

There is only one TV channel.

There is no Internet.

We aren't free to sing, say,

wear or think what we want.

North Korea is the only country

in the world,

that executes people,

for making unauthorized

international phone calls.

- The North Korean government

has announced

that it found a unicorn.

- Ah, foreigners are funny.

- A unicorn is a mythical creature

that the Greeks

first mentioned,

but it's in North Korea.

Now my question to you

is if you were

a unicorn, you would go

to North Korea, right?

I mean that's the only place

you'd want to be is there.

- But everything's like

that with North Korea.

It's always an exaggeration

and a parody and, you know,

kind of a freak show,

which I think those of us

who cover North Korea

find a little bit distressing

because it's not actually very funny

to the 24 million people

who live there.

- The price

of such limited information flow

back and forth is

that we perpetuate stereotypes

of a country or a society.

And I think that's the danger,

that's the price that we pay

when we close off a country

or we isolate a country,

like North Korea.

- North Korea local media

reporting that men now

have to wear their hair

just like their leader,

Kim Jong-un.

- So when we hear oh,

everybody has to have

the same haircut,

you think well, you know,

if that was true anywhere

it would probably be true there.

- Haircuts have reportedly

been state-approved

in North Korea for some time.

Men could choose between

10 hairstyles, women 18.

It was mandatory in North Korea

that everybody cut their hair

in 14 different styles.

There are 18 styles.

Of course the women

can chose their own style,

and if the hairstyle they want

is not here,

then they can ask the hairdresser

"I want this, this, this..."

And it's ok.

There isn't any kind of rule saying

you can cut it only this way, no,

it's the Western propaganda

on our country,

it's unacceptable.

I was quite surprised to be asked

that kind of question, you know,

when you first asked

but it's not true, you know?

- I don't accept

that there is propaganda

against North Korea.

There is no democracy

there is no free press,

there is no... whatever bullshit...

frankly speaking.

This is a war.

And in the war

we defend our idea.

- We defend our equality.

- Are we in a propaganda war?

Yeah, that's right.

And I'm proud to be in the forefront

of that propaganda war.

- On Tuesday

a shadowy group of hackers

calling themselves

Guardians of Peace

threatened violence

of 9/11 proportions

against movie theatres

that showed

the Seth Rogen-James Franco

comedy about a plot

to kill North Korean leader

Kim Jong-un.

It's an act of war,

it's a direct insult

and a mockery.

But it's a special mockery

because in this case

they are killing a living leader

which is never allowed or tolerated

in any other country of the world.

And I want to insist on that,

this movie, if Obama took the place

of our leader Kim Jong-un

it will be considered immediately

a terrorist act.

For them it was a supreme,

it was a kind of offense

a serious offense,

because it was a blasphemy.

I hope and I wish

they will lose a lot of money.

It has created enough trouble

in Sony Pictures

but it will not be

as profitable as they thought.

- "The Interview" has become

the most successful online movie

ever to be released

by the studio.

The film raked

in over $15 million

and was downloaded

more than 2 million times.

The children wanted to wave

to the foreign guests.

They were waving

and saying bye bye,

but he took pictures,

and put them in the newspaper

or a magazine,

making the comment that the children

were asking for help.

- We don't get instructions

from the government,

nor from our editors

as to what specifically to do.

That is a common perception,

I know, in China as well.

But, no, I have to clearly say

we are never

an extension of US policies.

In the newspaper there was a photo

where the children

were receiving the scarves.

The explanation

of the photograph said:

"Preparing to be military."

It said that.

It was fake.

It's manipulation.

They use a photograph

and then manipulate the text

around it to generate falseness.

- A rally staged

by the Korean Children's Union,

they pledge allegiance

to the state and get

their red scarves.

They asked us if all the Korean

people were suffering from hunger

if they had nothing to eat,

they said that...

Not at all!

They also spoke about executions,

saying we killed people in public.

- Authorities reportedly

machine-gunned 8 hooded people

in front of a crowd of 10,000

in a sports stadium

in the port city of Wonsan.

Which crimes are committed

in my country against humanity?

Crimes against humanity

in political prison camps,

crimes against humanity

in ordinary prison system,

crimes against humanity

targeting religious believers

and others considered to introduce

subversive influences.

The COI report is totally

and severely distorting

and faking up

our real situation of human rights

in DPRK

by creating political confrontation.

And the reason for those findings

are set out in detail

supported by actual testimony

in each case.

Even the Western mass media

report that

the most probable testimonies

made by defectors

are forced by leading questions.

The guards

were not trained to torture

but to shoot anyone who rebelled

or tried to escape.

We were told that if a war started

we had to kill every prisoner

to erase the evidence.

That was my job.

Torture,

battering on a large scale...

Specially in the prison camps

and in other detention centers

in North Korea.

I think the intelligent person will

see

that all the propaganda

against the DPRK,

all the horror stories

of the concentration camps,

and public executions

have no evidence at all.

And even now,

who used to be the most

representative defectors

of North Korea

are withdrawing their stories.

- It was a symbol of North

Korea's human rights abuses,

but the defector now admits

not everything was true.

- I'm sure there may be

somebody who may have

embellished their story.

But I know there's a lot of

self-policing among the defectors.

Because they know, they know

that the only way this issue

is either going to get the attention

is they are credible.

We wanted to live as humans.

None of our investigations

have been disqualified as false.

We have been criticized

as an organization.

You can find in so many reports,

even in their official budget,

that they are receiving so much

money from governments,

which they are supposed

not to do.

- North Korea says

that universal human

rights is propaganda.

What they call human rights

is the globalization of capitalism.

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