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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Scary North Korea Cover
Ups.
Kim Jong Un is unpredictable, and while he may have been attempting to play nice on the
world wide political stage, his country is still hiding a number of dark truths.
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10 - Truth About the Korean War North Korea Invaded South Korea with the blessing
of China…China and Russia then were drawn into the fray and the united states stepped
in to help the south win.
But that is not what North Koreans are taught, ho no.
They are taught that the United States is a murderous country focused only on anhilating
the hermit nation.
They are also taught that the US started the war and enslaved the south for political gain
in the Korean peninsula.
They even have a museum of American Atrocities filled with a few key pieces of Fake News.
In schools, teachers tell kids that Americans are nasty wolves who want to come at them.
While I am down for the fact that all things are kind of a product of perspective….and
America aren’t totally blameless….this is pretty far from the truth…or it was,
until President Trump claimed he would Totally destroy North Korea… but that wasn’t without
a good amount of provocation.
The scary thing here is that Kim Jong Un is continuing to perpetuate a very skewed version
of what happened in order to make his people hateful of the west.
9 - Otto Warmbier Otto Warmbier made the fatal decision to visit
North Korea without having truly grasped how dangerous the country can be.
The American university student visited Pyongyang while he was studying abroad in Hong Kong.
In Janurary 2016 he was arrested for attempting to steal a propaganda sign and sentenced to
15 years hard labour.
That is what the North Korean Government tell us anyway.
Whether or not Warmbier actually stole the sign remains to be seen, but either way, in
Western Countries, what would seem like a harmless piece of jock fun gets you sent away
for a time rivalling some life sentences.
Eventually, Warmbier was returned to the United States in June 2017, however he was delivered
in a coma.
Six days after returning back to US soil, he sadly passed away age 22.
American medics think he suffered a neurological injury one month after his sentencing.
North Korea said his coma was as a result of a bacterial infection.
What happened to severely injure Warmbier, we don’t know, and the North Koreans wont
be telling us any time soon.
8 - Kim’s Health Kim Jong Un is not a healthy man, but the
nation would do anything to cover that up for fear of destabilization.
It is suspected he has a son and a daughter, according to Denis Rodman, anyway.
Either way, if his son does exist, he is only thought to be around 9 years old, so no where
near old enough to take over from his dad.
Kim Jong Un is only 34, but he is not thought to be well at all.
His family history, his ballooning weight and odd behaviour over recent years has led
people to speculate he could be suffering from a breadth of illnesses, including diabetes,
gout, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, possible heart disease and psychological issues.
Some even suspect he has a sexually transmitted disease.
Kim is a heavy drinker and smoker and is not thought to enjoy a healthy diet!
When he is ill, he simply withdraws from the public rather than allowing people to see
him in poor health.
In such a fragile state as North Korea, the death of Kim Jong Un would cause a lot of
instability in an already tense region.
As American Senior Research fellow for Northeast Asia, Bruce Klinger put it - “Health conditions,
including use of medicines or drugs, can impact a foreign leader’s decision-making and an
expected death or debilitation of a leader can cause instability in a country with potential
consequences for U.S. interests.”
7 - Kim’s Brother’s Death It appears that on February the 13th 2017,
Kim Jong Nam, half brother of the North Korean Dictator, was poisoned at Kuala Lumpur Airport.
Previously considered heir apparent, Jong Nam fell out of favour with the North Korean
Regime, with his dad accusing him of being a communist.
Since 2003, he had been living in exile.
On the day of his death he was waiting for a flight to Macau when two women ran up to
him and sprayed him with a liquid, then fled.
He started feeling dizzy, collapsed and died on the way to hospital.
The women weren’t caught.
According to South Korean Government officials, North Korea had been planning on killing him
for 5 years.
The US determined he was killed by the VX nerve agent in an assassination plotted and
carried out by North Korea….
But of course, they’ll never admit to it or reference it inside the boarders of the
DPRK.
6 - Kim’s Fake Churches Kim Jong Un wants to cover up the fact that
he does not allow religious freedom in North Korea.
His horrifying Show Churches have been exposed, wherein he hires actors to pretend to pray
in order to try and make it look as if the DPRK has some semblance of human rights.
UK National News Paper, the Daily Express ran an article exposing the churches as a
rouse to cover up the treatment of Christians within his regime.
In fact, North Korea is the biggest persecutor of Christians worldwide.
According to multiple sources, including deflectors, if you are Christian, you must practice in
secret or face being imprisoned.
North Koreans are to put their faith in just one man – the god like leader of the hermit
nation.
However, when foreign visitors come to town, he parades them through show churches, pretend
places of worship filled with stooges.
5 - Ri Sol Ju vs Hyon Song Wol In 2013, South Korea reported that members
of the Unhasu Orchestra had been arrested for pornography.
One of the 12 performers arrested was Hyon Song-Wol, Kim Jong Un’s former girlfriend.
It is thought that she was among 12 performers killed by firing squad… their immediate
families were made to watch and then sentenced to hard labour as a result of the regimes
guilty by association rule.
Hyon was a North Korean sweetheart known for hits such as I Love Pyongyang, We are Troops
of the Party and, my favourite, Excellent Horse-Like Lady.
Some say that Kim Jong Un’s Mysterious wife, Ri Sol Ju was to blame.
She reportedly was married to Kim Jong in 2012, just a year before this reported mass
execution and some say she was jealous.
Weirdly, others say his wife IS Hyon Song Wol, but rebranded so that people don’t
think Kim Jong married a performer.
Hyon Song Wol mysteriously reappeared earlier this year during the Winter Olympics looking
somewhat different.
What is going on!
A dark secret coming up next… literally 4 - Lack of Electricity
North Korea claims to be a prosperous and powerful nation, but unfortunately for the
DPRK suffers from a number of pesky blackouts.
Why?
Because it suffers from Perennial energy shortages.
It is said that often students gather under street lamps to read their books.
It is pretty sad for North Korea, as before the fall of the soviet the country was a literal
powerhouse for energy production, but now it has lost its access to technical expertise
and subserdies, which means black outs across the nation, especially in capital Pyongyang.
A few tourists have experienced the power outages, but things get scary when officials
realise they have taken pictures…
they will forcibly make people remove the footage or images as they do not want you
to show the country in a bad light…or a bad lack of light.
On a similar note, they will encourage you to take pictures of children using computers
because they think it shows a good image of the country…even though most kids across
the country don’t have access to one.
3 - Deep Poverty and Starvation.
As you know, it is possible to visit North Korea as a tourist, however almost everything
you see will be a show for your benefit, so you can tell the rest of the world that North
Korea is a great place and Pyongyang is a thriving city.
It seems a lot of buildings are just nicely maintained shells, but inside people live
in horrible conditions without warm water.
It is only permitted to photograph what North Korean Guides want you to photography.
Some Defectors have even said that the shops in the city centre are fakes but that citizens
cant actually buy the products at all.
Indeed Photographer Eric Lafforgue has been to North Korea six times and has confirmed
that it is forbidden to photograph any kind of poverty, especially homelessness.
It is even illegal to picture normal people if they aren’t considered to be well dressed.
Basically, North Korea wants us to think it is a high flying country where its citizens
can shop at international stores and eat at nice restaurants, but in actuality, it is
reportedly said to be impoverished, with the majority of citizens malnourished and forced
to eat dog food and sawdust.
2 - Nuclear Tunnels By now we know that North Korea has been working
to develop nuclear weapons.
They have conducted six tests – one in 2006, 2009 and 2013, two in 2016 and one in 2017.
The 2017 effort was reported by the North Korean State Media to have generate a 6.3
magnitude earthquake.
The US Government and other world-wide intelligence agencies had a good idea as to where North
Korea was building its test sites, but the hermit nation was always trying to trick the
West by building underground nuclear lairs.
More recently, it seems that North Korea is playing nice on the world wide democratic
stage – they promised to get rid of their nuclear test centres and invited journalists
to watch the destruction of Punggye-ri, a nuclear test site in the Northern part of
the country.
Interestingly, those invited to watch the blow up of tunnels were a small selection
of hand invited press – although none from South Korea…and no inspectors who could
study the site to determine whether or not there was still activity.
A similar spectacle was arranged in 2008 when the nation blew up a water cooler at its Yongbyong
nuclear reactor.
That peace was short lived and the nation once again fell out with the West.
Some experts also believe that this latest destruction was for show and a coverup of
their true intentions.
1 - Death Camps We know that North Korea has a number of labour
camps.
North Korea acknowledges that it has labour camps but keeps details of how brutal they
are secret and we mainly know about them from satellite imagery and from defectors.
While North Korea will acknowledge it sentences people to labour, it will never admit it beats
and often kills prisoners.
A North Korean deflector, Lim Hye-jin spoke about her time working at one of the camps.
She told the Mail on Sunday news publication that two brothers were beheaded in front of
a crowd who were forced to watch and throw stones at them.
She also said another woman was stripped naked and set on fire when a guard lost his temper.
Hye-Jin claimed that corpses lay rotting on the ground and guards are manipulated not
to feel any sympathy for prisoners.
So that was the top 10 scary North Korea Coverups….
What did you think to this list?
Would you ever want to go to North Korea?
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