North Korea's Lifeline - Japan

Sep 1998
Despite its insularity, North Korea is successfully exporting its fanaticism through half a million expatriates living in capitalist Japan. Chongryun, the Workers Party of North Korea, is meeting in Tokyo. It's easy to imagine we are in the heart of North Korea as over 10,000 fiercely patriotic members come together to celebrate the dictator Kim Jong II's party leadership. Commitment to the cause starts young thanks to the Party schools run outside the jurisdiction of Japanese education authorities. This is the first time that the Northern Korean community has allowed any Western media to film inside their schools. Taught in Korean with censored North Korean text books, these children will never hear any criticism of their homeland. We follow eighteen year old Jong Ryol and his classmates as they prepare for their graduation visit to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang: a school trip into a country still considered hostile to the outside world, but for these students, a journey "home". Jong Ryol returns from his trip with a glowing report Yet the bulk of funding from Japan does not come from patriotic ex-pats. Most of Japan's 18,000 gambling parlours are owned by Koreans with an estimated $250 billion turnover. While North Koreans overlook their leaders's autocratic ways, it seems he turns a blind eye to the origin of the money his regime receives.

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[JinNOSify]

Those who think Kim Jong Ill is a hero, you're all mindless idiots who always think violence and communism is the key to success.

[kinu6559]

北朝鮮では餓死者が数百万人いる。　そんな国の総書記は肥満で糖尿病！！　それを

偉大だと言うバカ！！　全く話しにならない！！



[quaek]

I can't believe, this is real.

[alumite1]

Japanese government should recognize the existence of taking captive by North Korea ,and media should tell the truth of North Korea.

[tehatemachine]

@rickcain2320 study government more narrow minded communist fuck. Then you'll see that everywhere you go, you will always find groups of retards that only make up a very small portion of the population. oh except you, you are the large portion of lazy OWS tards who do nothing but complain, you are such pussies that you allow yourself to get beaten up by the police claiming that "we will protest peacefully" which shows that you aren't all there and are scared pussies.

[tehatemachine]

@whyyesyes yeah google is wicked sick and awesome!

[a2r1v1i2s]

@JinNOSify I'm pretty sure that the only people who think that are north korean.

[a2r1v1i2s]

@kinu6559 he's diabetic? or was...

[ticcadrift]

@skirm123

I agree with the sentiment. But the beauty of it is that Japan proves democracy is better simply by giving freedom of speech to those who oppose freedom.

[rickcain2320]

What do you expect? Japan is a nation ruled by corporations. It is as greedy and corrupt as any American system and the bankers have been stealing billions of yen while japan has been in a near-permanent recession. Japanese jobs have been exported to communist china, and profits are stolen and the worker endures high prices and even higher taxes.

The Japanese are so desperate they are even running to the psychotic North Korean idealogy.

[whyyesyes]

Google & American Express are both wicked companies.

[ecosby100]

@JinNOSify the people are brain washed and threatened they dont comply if you knew anything about the government then you would know this if they dont do what they are told from birth to do there are concentration camps like the ones they had for the Jews in the 1940 that they and there whole family will be sent to why dosent the UN stop it because they have a Nuclear bomb and the UN only tries to make a difference when theres political gain so thats why u dont know this look it up