The Propaganda Game Page #6

These organizations are used

to infiltrate other countries

to impose the American way of life

and the American politics.

What they call human rights

is not the human right

to have shelter,

to have food to have water,

to have education;

t's not that.

Because USA is the first country

that never accomplishes

that kind of human rights.

- If you call that propaganda,

I call it universal human rights.

Ideally, if the North Korean

government had nothing to hide,

they should allow the entrance

of international agencies.

That's the point.

You will never open

the door to your house

to a person who has been

insulting your father,

insulting you

and threatening you,

and sanctioning you.

If you don't know something,

if for you the DPRK

is a black hole,

"I don't know

anything about DPRK.

It's such a misterious country.

It's a secret country."

Ok! That's fine! It's true!

It's a secret country

you can say that.

It's a fortress.

We are very much

protecting our system.

Tell me the lie

that angers you the most.

The lie that angers me the most

will be probably

that our Korean people

my comrades,

they are forced

to believe in our system.

Like there was someone,

one soldier with one machine gun

pointing at each one of our citizens,

to force them

to follow our system.

The figure of the leader

is the father.

It's not a dictatorship

like many Western people lie

and believe in that kind

of missinformation.

He is, as a father

giving precious instructions

and giving his life

for the welfare of the people.

And then the people

also show their love to him

by accepting him as a father.

That's why we always

call ourselves family,

even if we are not

from the same family.

But being comrades

and having the same leader...

We help each other,

in everything.

A big community.

Do the people in North Korea

have the same feeling

for the leader Kim Il-sung

as for the others?

We've never thought

our President Kim Il-sung

did much more

and General Kim Jong-il did little.

No, all things are the same

all achievements are great,

and the way he did

is the way the General did

and is the way that

Marshal Kim Jong-un is doing.

So, for Marshal Kim Jong-un

you have the same love as...

Yes, we have the same love

because we...

just lost our beloved fathers...,

so, we even love them

with more passion...

Just thinking of our fathers

you know, it's just...

Later I can explain it.

- Tonight an 11-day period

of mourning is underway

for Kim Jong-il,

the dictator who died Saturday.

And we were struck by images

from inside the Hermit Kingdom

showing grief-stricken

North Koreans in despair,

wailing uncontrollably.

But is all that emotion real

or is there a bit of both?

He is just like a father taking

care,

but not just taking care of a son

he takes care of all society.

He kind of adopted

the whole society.

God cannot die.

Nobody believed it when we were told

the person we considered God

had died.

I could not accept it as truth.

It was very emotional

for the people, everyone was crying.

I cried a lot.

It affected me a lot.

That's why all the people

cry on the streets.

How can it be?

People cannot understand,

Is it a theatre?

It's not a theatre.

This is an insult.

And when you live so far away,

and the culture is so different,

for Western people

it will be hard to understand.

But you cannot really try

to feel the same

that Korean people feel

but you can

by talking to the people,

see that it's a true feeling.

We haven't really gotten

any deep knowledge or understanding

of the philosophy or the ideology.

We get a lot of information

from Alejandro,

very deep thoughts

and very clear theories,

of eveything that lies behind it,

but no North Korean

will tell us anything about it.

So we have to rely

on what Alejandro is telling us,

and at the end

he is not really a North Korean,

even though he has been

coming and going

with foreign visitors

for the last 20 years,

that doesn't make you

a North Korean.

It became a sort of tradition

or custom,

to visit every year

this flower festival.

And you see here

this flower is Kimilsungia.

- This one is Kimilsungia?

- Yes. You didn't know?

Look around the whole festival.

This flower is called after his

name.

It's cultivated in Indonesia.

And the Indonesian president

Sukarno,

he asked our President

Kim Il-sung

to name this flower

after his name

as a sign of respect towards

our Generalissimo Kim Il-sung.

Why wouldn't we be happy today?

Our country

and all the citizens of the world

are celebrating our Great Leader.

One has to understand

the North Korean system

and its propaganda are based

on a strong epic national history.

Its foundation is real

and incredibly strong.

A leader,

especially a kind of absolute leader

in a monarchy,

is usually seen

as a god.

Ideology has always been,

in communist countries,

a substitute for religion.

- They've taken a lot of imagery

from the New Testament.

I think it's part of the reason

that Christianity

is such a taboo in North Korea.

They have their stars

when Kim Jong-il was born

and double rainbows

and all of this.

It's kind of a rip-off of the bible.

- Many cultures in Asia

have that tradition.

It's feudalism, in essence.

The feudal lords ruled over

the subjects basically.

And this is a continuation of that.

Visiting a church was not

on the itinerary,

but I told them I was a Christian

and wanted to attend mass.

After plenty of phone calls,

we finally got permission.

This idea that people have

that people are being executed

for being Christians.

I want to know about this.

Of course,

you can see it by yourself.

So, the traditional religions

in North Korea

are Christian;

Among Christians we have Catholics

like this church;

We have also Protestant church,

and then we have Buddishm

which is also an ancient religion,

and they have their rights;

And they have the Cheondoism

the Cheondogyo,

which is traditional

to the Korean culture.

But our government doesn't allow

new religions

like Scientology

or Jehovah's Witnesses,

religions that, in many cases

are politically influenced,

or carry a heavy weight

in cultural invasion,

rather than just pure philosophy,

are not tolerated in the DPRK.

Inside a state like this,

competitors are not allowed.

Any religion that could work there

should be submitted to the state.

Therefore,

if any political idea that differs

from that of the regime

or any suspicion

that you are not loyal to the regime

is punished,

I don't see why religion

should be any different.

As you know,

freedom of cult dictates

that beliefs cannot be imposed.

Everybody has the right and the

freedom to be a believer or not.

The Westerners

appear to be very virtuous

however they have malice.

They think theirs is religion,

but not ours.

It's contradictory

that now they speak about

our religion in this manner.

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