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Identify a knowledge issue associated with North Korea? Justify it as a TOK knowledge issue.
Knowledge Issue: Are the elite North Korean children brought up to praise Kim Jung Il and hate North Americans?
This is a TOK knowledge issue because in the movie that we watched, the film section at the school was only about the story of Kim becoming a comrade and the teacher was praising him mad and making the children repeat after her of the goodness of heart that Kim has. Then, the other part of the movie was of the work place where the company was low on supplies and they literally blamed the Americans for their shortage. Also, in the beginning of the movie where the mother was walking the child to school, they sang a song about making the Americans go on their knees and pleading for mercy. This shows that they consider us as inferior to them and blaming us for their shortcomings, and along with that praising Kim Jung Il of his successful comradeship. This was what was portrayed all the time throughout the first movie we saw in class of North Korea and due to the limited knowledge of that movie, i have to surmise that the North Koreans were only allowed limited knowledge and resources of their country and the countries that they know of. They are trained to like and look up to Kim and to hate Americans. They are trained to be what they are portrayed like in the movie and that is due to the type of government that Kim Jung Il is in control of. This is the side of North Korea we see and the conclusion we can make based on the material we are given in the movie.
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