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Use of indoctrination in North Korean schools
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Notes taken based off various primary and secondary sources regarding how present day North Korea is using indoctrination within their schools.
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● In a 2014 United Nations report that examined North Korea, there were these crimes○ entail extermination
○ Murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape,
○ forced abortions and other sexual violence,
○ persecution on political, religious, racial, and gender grounds
○ the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons, and
the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation,”
● Prison gulags
○ People accused of political crimes are arrested and sentenced to prison camps
without trials
■ Their families are often kept in the dark about their whereabouts.
○ Prisoners are starved, forced to work, tortured, and raped.
○ Reproductive rights are denied through forced abortions and infanticide.
○ Some are executed — sometimes in public.
● Mr. Kim’s enemies, and family, have been executed
○ In his first six years as leader, Kim ordered the executions of at least 340 people.
○ In 2016, Kim Yong-jin, the deputy premier for education, was killed in front of a
firing squad after showing “disrespectful posture” in a meeting.
○ One of Mr. Kim’s uncles, Jang Song-thaek, was convicted of treason. He was
then executed with anti-aircraft machine guns, and his body was incinerated with
flamethrowers.
○ Kim Jong-nam, the estranged brother of the North Korean leader, was killed last
year in a very public way for having a chemical warfare agent rubbed on his face.
The US later proved North Korea had planned it.
● Christianity is deemed a ‘serious threat’
○ Christianity “provides a platform for social and political organization and
interaction outside the realm of the State,” according to the United Nations report.
○ The practice of Christianity is banned
○ “If the government finds out I am reading the Bible, I’m dead,”
● ‘Deliberate starvation’ as a play for power
○ Two million to three million people were believed to have died during an extended
famine in North Korea in the 1990s
○ North Korea used food as a tool to enforce political loyalty
○ adding that suspects are also starved “to increase the pressure on them to
confess and to incriminate other persons.”
○ Hunger and malnutrition are still a problem today
https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/10/19/worth-less-animal/abuses-and-due-process-violations-pr
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● Lim Ok Kyung was found having snuggled items, her husband however had good
connections.
○ Hit during investigations
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