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[Natalie]

I like these kinds of documentaries, that go into the lives of ordinary people. Of course its censored by the North's regime and this shaped from a very bias perspective, but still.....

Talks about the 'American enemy' which are then referred to as monsters and dogs. Its amazing how brainwashed they are, no wonder they seem robotic, they're being fed that bullshit since birth...

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/9/5088

edit: its the first one I'm referring to

[happeningthang]

I read a book on North Korea, and it said that when westerners, particularly journalists, were shown around the country all the people that would be seen were directed to be 'exemplary'.

The author mentions being freaked by 'robotic' school kiddies, and the silence in the schoolyard, but hearing boisterous Nork kiddies from another school he wasn't being shown.

Everything in the doc was undoubtedly stage managed to the nth degree. If anything it shows the extraordinary control the state has over people, and that Kim Jong Il doesn't have a clue about what 'we' consider to be normal, but I strongly doubt we're getting a look in on a day in the life of North Korea.

[Junior]

saw the first one.

The factory meeting with the supervisor condemning herself for the power shortage was eerilly reminiscent of...one of my public school teacher meetings.

[Natalie]