Today me and my wife have watched the Netflix animation movie called 'True North'.
The plot description is going to be omitted here, but in short the torture, violence, violation of human rights and arbitrary killing of the inmates were the most impressive part.
The inmates are always the political prisoner and its family, and they are brought to the concentration camp and exposed to the hard labor and they need to survive through the abuse.
This film gives us the idea what is happening in the North Korea, in which there are no due process and everyone are forced to "think the same". If you don't conform to the protocol (which is absurd) then you should be persecuted. Plus, his/her family is also punished as well, and people are controlled in a way they hate each other.
We might say "ooo the North Korea is bad country without human rights! we should bomb that country" but the reality is not that easy. The issue (and i don't directly refer to but also the concentration camps currently existing in the world also) should be solved globally.
In the early 20th century Japanese imperial army went through the quite similar path, expansionism and atrocity as a result, which our revisionist try to negate. Also Nazi Germany, Cambodia, or anywhere people established the system going toward atrocity and massacre. This happens mainly in the context of totalitarian schema and there are always strong ideology, of which people are forced to commit to the story and traitors are persecuted. This includes the witch hunt in the medieval western society or pogrom, in which only craziness existed and people are monitoring and policing each other. Cultural revolution as well.
North Korea could be a sort of miniature of former soviet union and maybe the "communist" protocol is composed of the (1) secret police and (2) concentration camps, as the Yukio Mishima described.
In Japanese case external power (U.S) came in and set the constitution such that the endless expansion finished. Yet in North Korea, who is going to stop this brutality? One day, for the absurd reason you are going to be treated like Otto Warmbier, and your family as well. This is not accepted in our contemporary global community.
Maybe we can conclude that this is the reality of human society. In the long history people's nature is evil and we killed and tortured groups of people and nobody could stop it. If you tried to stop it, there are serious consequences (i.e Myanmar). In capitalist country also there are "populist" approach to brainwash citizens by segmenting the propaganda according to the attributes and browsing history and we saw how it is going to be ugly as Trump agitated racist movements.)
Intellectuals/middle class are oppressed dozens of times in everywhere since probably they could be the scapegoat to distract the majority from what really is happening.
North Korea is the extreme case but even in the democratic society people often trying to harass and attack individuals simply because he/she is a celebrity or loyal family, the media tries to propagate it. So when the society is strongly going toward one single direction, it is the sign of "we have to think the same, traitors should be executed", and thing is going to escalate. This escalation could often have historical context such as the history between Jews and Gentry, when the economy regress then we tend to look for the groups or category of people to point finger at and let them be scapegoat. Middle class, rich, intellectuals, foreigners, minorities. Good example is the facebook (C.A.) propagation in Myanmar and Rohingya massacre.
In Soviet Union's case bunch of Russian individuals were mature enough to avoid the worst option but we cannot expect what is going to happen for a few decades from now.
This film taught us a lot, we were impacted a lot and knew the horrible situation current North Korean people are going through, at the same time since the U.S. is no longer eligible as "the Great country to police the entire globe" so probably we have no other option but leave it as it is...
The economic sanction seems working partially but still she got pipeline with some peripheral countries, which makes the issue complicated... we need coup de grace to alter its political darkness but maybe some neighbors might not allow it. (not sure)
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Politically, what should we care about?
There are two topics you need to always keep in mind if you think of / involve in politics:
(1) You should monitor the EXTERNAL threats, which you cannot avoid geopolitically.
(2) You should monitor the INTERNAL threats, which threatens your life and family.
In stupid "conservativie retard's" mindset these (1) (2) both refers to foreign agents of something and (2) means "find the traitors!!!" stuff but this is not what I intend to say.
The (1) is the geopolitical reality which we have no other options to face with, and anyone (even whom you think as ally). People are greed and if you lost the fair power balance with them you cannot function in terms of diplomacy and you end up being exploited.
The (2) is the threat the basic human rights or any other rights essential is going to be deprived of. Racism against minority as well. Contempt against intellectuals/middle class as well. If the society goes crazy like the current COVID19 incident people (ugly people) rush to someone whom they can harass and finally, execute. It means it CAN be possible that even the free society can end up with North Korea if the people fail to monitor the government and its legal/administrative procedure. You need to stop your government to harm the external people, like imperialist did.
we should learn from North Korea as anti pattern.
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