Life in North Korea: “Like the Hunger Games”
Yenomi Park grew up in North Korea as a child www.telegraph.co.uk reported. At 9 years old, she watched her friend’s mother shot. This is just one of the daily casualties in North Korea.
Pyongyang is North Korea’s capital, www.theguardian.com stated, and is named as the “capital of revolution.” North Korea has a large working population of 59% workers with 90% women.
“It’s like the Hunger Games,” said Australian tourists visiting North Korea www.dailymail.co.uk stated. “Some of the footage is just extraordinary,” said James Jones, the director of the film, ‘Secret State of North Korea,”.
Yenomi fled to China when she was 13 with her family www.bbc.com reported. She was forced to eat grass and insects to survive. “When I was four years old, my mum told me not to even whisper. Even the birds and mice could hear me. Even in China I had to hide. My whole life I had to hide. I hid my opinions and could not express anything,” she said.
Tourists visited North Korea and said that they visited Masikryong, a skiing complex, and saw nobody except for the staff. The store has ski gear and food for sale. They also sold spam which was expired www.theatlantic.com reported.
“… Any direct contact with the North Korean people is virtually impossible. As well as fear and reservation, and the intimidating scrutiny of the guides, most North Koreans cannot understand English,” said Olaf Schuelke, a self-taught German documentary photographer.
North Korea is controlled by supreme leader, Kim Jong -un. North Korea is also known as the Democratic People’s Rebulic of Korea. This country also has a number of concentration camps with a population of 29.3 million www.cnn.com reported.
I enjoyed your article because I learned that People in North Korea struggle to survive.
Wow! This article really showed me some of the hardships in North Korea and I hope we can help those people.
Amazing! I enjoyed reading about the hardships and hope it gets better in such countries.
Omg this is so sad i really just want to fly over ther and help out. Thank you for giving us this information!
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I like this article because i learned that people in north korea a having a hard time living and struggling to survive and i learned that there is 2.9 million people there.
I would have never thought this could happen! Its so sad to see people in other countries have to go throught that.
I really enjoyed this article! its sad how they can go through that like a daily routine.
This is a very well written article Delaney! I feel very bad for all those people suffering.I hope all gets better soon!