Fake Town
Imjin River
From the outside, the North Korean village of Kijong-dong looks like any other town, brightly painted houses, schools, daycare, even a hospital.
Kijong-dong is widely referred to as the “Propaganda Village” and is believed to be a decoy for luring South Korean defectors.
The town claims to have 200 residents and boasts an image of economic success.
Observations from the south have suggested that Kijong-dong is fake and is devoid of human life.
Brainwashing
"Do you know where the milk came from? It came from the Dear Leader. Because of his love and consideration, we are drinking milk today."
Television sets and radios are fixed to state-run channels — being caught with an unfixed device, or worse, foreign DVDs, is a severe offense that often leads to time at a labor camp — and for all but a handful of the elite, there is no Internet.
The brainwashing starts in kindergarten.
The teachers would say: "Do you know where the milk came from? It came from the Dear Leader. Because of his love and consideration, we are drinking milk today."
Children’s books convey the ideology, too. “The Butterfly and the Cockerel,” for example, tells the story of an irascible, bullying rooster (the United States) outwitted by a small, virtuous butterfly (North Korea).
“When I taught math problems, they would go like this,” said Chae Kyung-hee, who used to teach middle school in North Korea and now runs a school for defectors in Seoul. “If you have this many of Kim Il Sung’s anti-Japanese fighters and this many Japanese soldiers, and X-many Japanese soldiers are killed . . .”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.330a040fc33f) (Windows/Mirrors)
To learn more about the education system of North Korea, watch the video below.
Propaganda
"Don't forget the American wild dogs."
The North Korean propaganda posters are wildly known. When Kim Il Sung became the leader of North Korea, he focused on using propaganda to gain trust of his citizens. He also used it to paint an image of the enemies of North Korea, which would be the U.S. and South Korea.
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