Remember Jim Jones? The guy that brought a whole church to its death in Guyana back in the 70's? Remember the images of his people working in the fields listening to him preach and sometimes just rant, over giant loudspeakers? Day in, day out,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hyok Kang's This Is Paradise relates how Communist youth in North Korea are twisted early in their thinking about Americans and South Koreans and Japanese. Before the child can grow and form his own assessments about the nations of the world,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Are you ready for this? Ten birds on a branch. Hunter shoots one. How many left? Nine, you say. But future North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung says, None. The others fly away. Hyok Kang in This Is Paradise tells that and several other anecdotes...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Rodung Sinman is a mouthpiece of the government in North Korea. Here's one of their latest concoctions. Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) - The imperialists and the paid bourgeois trumpeters are forcing other countries to introduce Western-style...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Should you decide to take up residence in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea you would most likely be given three choices for television viewing: North Korea Chosun TV, Mansu Hill TV (Pyongyang only) and Chosun Education and Culture TV. All...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
No, I haven't suddenly switched to talking about Islam. North Koreans too have pledged to defend their land and their Emperor with their own bodies, their own lives. Christians have long known the principle of self-sacrifice and have produced true...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Special education" in America is getting a bad rap. And rightfully so. There are parents who are trying to cash in on their "slow" children, demanding that they be tested at school, and hoping the child's "disability" will turn into dollars. Then...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Let's go back to "paradise" again. Specifically, Hyok Kang's This Is Paradise . It's the 1990's, during Hyok's childhood. Things we suspect about the government turn out to be true. For example, when the U.N. delivers food, the cadres in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
At 6 a.m. on top of old Baekdu Mountain in North Korea, a bright double rainbow rises in the sky, along with a brand new star. This mysterious event has been foretold by a swallow, and includes flashes of lightning and thunder, and the breaking...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This is Paradise, Hyok Kang, 2004 "At the age of nine I saw my first execution, in the grounds of the brick factory. The man had been condemned to death for stealing copper wire from electric pylons to sell in China, crossing the border under...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
