Welcome to North Korea [pt 2/6]

Part 2/6

This film, shot mostly covertly, shows the irony of a regime where 20 million people lived in poverty, some on the brink of starvation, while former dictator Kim II Sung built extravagant monuments to reflect his power. He fostered a grotesque personality cult, which his son and successor Kim Jong Il perpetuates. All around the capital, Pyongyang, an endless stream of propaganda glorifies the leaders. Monuments and museums pay homage to them, but they are strangely empty.

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News & Politics

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• documentary
• totalitarianism
• communism
• war
• crimes
• genocide
• North
• Korea
• poverty
• dmz

[TheSolitaryTraveller]

Make god bleed in front of it's followers, so weakness and mortality are seen.

[preto18]

POOR PPL....

[WotTehPhok]

@Lynnch1 It is both situational and dramatic irony. We know the pictures contradict their way of government, when they think it's the same.

You fail at trying to be superior.

[Lynnch1]

@WotTehPhok No thats not what irony is. Im sure you WotTehPhok actually knows what it is but cant explain it.....you must be in the "special class" in school. Go look at your pop up books!!!

[WotTehPhok]

@Lynnch1 Irony is the unexpected. It is ironic.

[MasterxofxthexWorld]

@Lynnch1 It's ironic that North Korea feature portraits of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin because the current state of the DPRK isn't even a remote example of the teachings of Marx and Lenin. That is ironic, considering the DPRK considers themselves to be the successors of Marxist ideas.

[Lynnch1]

@MasterxofxthexWorld Thats not what irony is. Do you know what irony is??

[MasterxofxthexWorld]

@Lynnch1 How is it not?

[Lynnch1]

@MasterxofxthexWorld Thats not ironic!!!!!!

[DogyKane]

Marx's communism never meant to be a political ideology or system, it is just a social theory which describe his view of evolution of mankind. Eventually, the modern day Norway, Sweden and Finland come very close to Marx's assumption.