{"id":69583,"date":"2021-06-17T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69583"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:30:06","slug":"when-a-north-korean-defector-says-this-about-the-present-us-regime-you-know-things-have-gotten-very-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69583","title":{"rendered":"When a North Korean defector says this about the present US regime, you know things have gotten very bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>You Know It\u2019s Bad When a NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR Says That US Similarities to NK Are \u201cInsane\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/USLIKENKOREAFB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/USLIKENKOREAFB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/USLIKENKOREAFB-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>by Daisy Luther<\/h3>\n<p>We interrupt your regularly scheduled brainwashing for a dose of reality for a brave young woman who defected from North Korea in a brutal journey so she could be free. Eventually, she made it to the US to attend an Ivy League American school.<\/p>\n<p>Yeonmi Park has seen firsthand where the United States is headed\u2026.and it\u2019s straight to North Korea if we don\u2019t make changes soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Propaganda in North Korea<\/h2>\n<p>Anyone who saw the movie \u201cThe Interview\u201d recognized that under the farce there was a lot of truth. Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who will not allow citizens to access the internet or learn anything about critical thinking. The propaganda in North Korea is rampant \u2013 both anti-American and pro-North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>For example, there\u2019s a long-running cartoon shown to schoolchildren called \u201cA Squirrel and Hedgehog.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsOXFiAc\">\n<div id=\"ld-5291-9918\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lockerdome.com\/lad\/13006746251637862?pubid=ld-5291-9918&amp;pubo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theorganicprepper.com&amp;rid=www.zerohedge.com&amp;width=928\" width=\"550\" height=\"554\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Yet we should not forget that\u00a0films and cartoons in North Korea send an ideological message. Usually it is very simple: all the army, the party, and the people follow the unsurpassed leaders of\u00a0Mount Paektu\u00a0in their march from victory to victory against the mortal enemies of the Korean people willing that the wicked American imperialists, the evil Japanese claimants of territory, and their south Korean puppets suffer defeat-after-defeat,\u00a0bringing ever\u00a0closer the day when they will be erased from the face of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The least ideological material on\u00a0North Korean TV\u00a0happens to be children\u2019s cartoon series, the most well-known which is\u00a0called \u201cA Squirrel and Hedgehog\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The story is quite simple. There is a community of good animals who live on Flower Hill, but they are attacked by an evil Weasel Legion. The Flower Hill animals respond by sending a brave squirrel named Goldie agent to infiltrate the Legion. Goldie becomes close to the evil overlord \u2013 the Weasel General \u2013 yet soon sabotages his plans, helping his allies from Flower Hill. And when the Weasel Legion is defeated in episode 26, a new enemy rises: a Jackal Legion\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026The morality presented in the series is utterly black and white alike those usually in North Korean fiction. Goldie and the other Flower Hill animals are smart, noble, witty and ready to self-sacrifice. Weasels, jackals and their allies, on the other hand, are mean and treacherous cowards, longing to betray everyone they see\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Finally, and this is perhaps the saddest part of all, \u201cA Squirrel and a Hedgehog\u201d is actually a cruel cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am not merely talking about the Jackal General, who suffers a nervous breakdown in almost every episode. The cruelty is actually more associated with Goldie and his allies, who constantly call their enemies \u201cbastards\u201d and \u201cscum,\u201d using violence against a defeated enemy on a regular basis\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Outside of North Korea, most cartoons and films about wars talk about a show of compassion towards the defeated enemy and civilians, in which when the hero is forced to kill, it is not an easy thing. In North Korea, however, the mentality seems to be \u201cWe are right. The enemy is not. Kill the enemy and make him suffer.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/2016\/07\/propaganda-starts-early-north-koreas-cruel-and-crude-cartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In North Korea, there is no internet, all media is state-run, and there\u2019s only one television channel. Only one point of view is allowed to exist. From the time they start school, children in North Korea are inundated with propaganda to the point that they\u2019re completely brainwashed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/protecting-children-indoctrination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound familiar<\/a>?<\/p>\n<h2>Back to Yeonmi Park\u2019s interview<\/h2>\n<p>Yeonmi, now 27, escaped from North Korea with her mother when she was 13 years old. The journey was treacherous. She and her mother were sold to sex traffickers, then rescued by missionaries, they walked across the Gobi Desert to reach freedom. Eventually, they reached safe haven in South Korea. She wrote about her fight to live free in her 2015 memoir,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gkJ4Tk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Order to Live<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/gen-x-cancel-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talked here before about a Marxist agenda<\/a>\u00a0in the US education system and Park agrees. When she transferred to Columbia University, she says she was deeply disturbed by what she saw.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,\u201d Park said in an interview with Fox News. \u201cI realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts?cmpid=fb_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeonmi was baffled by what American students considered oppression.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBecause I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,\u201d said Yeonmi, who by the age of 13 had witnessed people drop dead of starvation right before her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kids keep saying how they\u2019re oppressed, how much injustice they\u2019ve experienced. They don\u2019t know how hard it is to be free,\u201d she admonished\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.\u201dThe people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts?cmpid=fb_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is something we\u2019ve witnessed to a shocking degree during the Covid pandemic,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/covid-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which has been used as an opportunity to change the world forever<\/a>. People have given up their livelihoods, their lives, their very freedom to walk their dogs.<\/p>\n<h2>The United States of America was not what she expected.<\/h2>\n<p>Yeonmi had always dreamed of coming to the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having come to America with high hopes and expectations, Yeonmi expressed her disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She thought she was going to come here and learn to think critically.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people\u2019s ability to think critically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving,\u201d she recalled. \u201cHe\u2019s the fattest guy \u2013 how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said \u2018Look at him, he\u2019s the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?\u2019 Because I never learned how to think critically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what is happening in America,\u201d she continued. \u201cPeople see things but they\u2019ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts?cmpid=fb_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Critical thinking is indeed becoming a lost art, particularly as anyone thinking outside the status quo gets \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/us-ministry-of-woke-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a>\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/the-organic-prepper-has-been-defunded-for-being-a-disinformation-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defunded<\/a>.\u201d Our country is rapidly turning into the kind of place in which only one opinion can be held. To hold a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/opinions-qualify-as-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different viewpoint is practically criminalized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The worst part is that people here have chosen their path.<\/h2>\n<p>Yeonmi is watching America go down a totalitarian path.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnessing the depth of American\u2019s ignorance up close has made Yeonmi question everything about humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Koreans, we don\u2019t have Internet, we don\u2019t have access to any of these great thinkers, we don\u2019t know anything. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts?cmpid=fb_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing changes though, that take us further and further toward that kind of world. Alternative news sites are shut down in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/censorship-alternative-media-book-burning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wave of virtual book-burning<\/a>. Social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/alternative-media-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purges any dissenting point of view<\/a>. TikTok brainwashes young people in 15-60 second intervals.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/how-the-radical-left-has-taken-over-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University professors promote violence against those who think differently.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Have things gone too far?<\/h2>\n<p>Is it fixable? Yeonmi questions where our country goes at this point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhere are we going from here?\u201d she wondered. \u201cThere\u2019s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it\u2019s complete chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess that\u2019s what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts?cmpid=fb_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/playbook-step\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s a playbook<\/a>, we wrote it, and it\u2019s being used to turn our once-proud nation into a parody of itself. Our very education is brainwashing students into hating our country and being ashamed of our race if we\u2019re white. Social media inspires paroxysms of self-induced guilt over the possibility one may have accidentally micro-aggressed or not been 100% inclusive to everyone on the planet, thinking ahead of any potential handicap or mental illness that might have caused someone discomfort. Americans have become offended over practically everything and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/the-great-american-butthurt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the butthurt is real<\/a>. Some of it would be funny if it wasn\u2019t so damned tragic.<\/p>\n<p>Critical thinking is frowned upon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/survive-cancel-opinions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/the-organic-prepper-has-been-defunded-for-being-a-disinformation-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defunded<\/a>. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because we\u2019re being set up for a communist takeover and the brainwashed masses will applaud. With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/universitys-move-replace-clapping-jazz-hands-sparks-controversy\/story?id=58254353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jazz hands<\/a>, of course, so they don\u2019t \u201ctrigger\u201d those who are bothered by loud noises. And definitely no memos will be sent announcing the changes using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/frighten-university-students-all-caps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cfrightening\u201d all-caps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you think?<\/h2>\n<p>Do you see the similarities between us and the most restrictive country on the planet? Do you think we\u2019re headed that way? How do we stop it?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/north-korean-defector-us-similarities-insane\/\">https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/north-korean-defector-us-similarities-insane\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Know It\u2019s Bad When a NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR Says That US Similarities to NK Are \u201cInsane\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}