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There is no freedom of religion,
there's no freedom of thought,
there's no freedom of press.
There is only one paper, one radio station.
There's one TV station.
North Korea may be the only country in the world that completely bans
outside broadcasts.
And spying on one another is very much a part of life in North Korea.
You cannot move from place to place without getting a permit.
I would call the entire country of North Korea, really, a prison.
And the strangest country in the world - it is the only communist,
Confucian, hereditary dynasty in the world.
And Kim Jong-un has been very busy getting rid of any potential threat.
Within one year, he got rid of his number-two man in North Korea -
his uncle who helped him garner power.
He dragged him out and publicly killed him.
Then he assassinated his half-brother
at a major international airport using banned WMD.
And he got rid of about 400 top officials.
We're now onto maybe 90th defence minister. I lost count.
Senior officials have been executed by the use of anti-aircraft guns.
If you shoot a human using artillery
which is designed to take down planes,
you can imagine the effect on the body.
The only reason to do that is for the fear that that will put into
the people that are gathered and made to watch.
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Victims of extermination, murder, enslavement and torture.
People whose loved ones disappeared without trace.
People who have been deliberately starved.
Forced abortions, sterilisation, rape,
I mean, torture of the defectors who get caught and returned.
The Chinese government has a hardline policy of, if they find
North Korean refugees, arresting them and detaining them,
and then forcibly sending them back to North Korea,
where they will face investigation,
torture and a range of harsh punishments.
Sometimes, people will die through torture
and there's no recourse for North Korean citizens, for their families,
to complain about that.
United Nations came up with a 400-page report
a couple of years ago that says North Korea's human rights
violations is unparalleled in contemporary history.
The only parallel they could come up with is Nazi Germany.
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For a while, the North Korean economy was more successful
than China's and even better than South Korea,
and people pointed, saying, "Look, communism really works,"
but everything was artificially propped up by the Soviet Union
and the Eastern Bloc, and when that collapsed,
North Korea went into a free fall.
In 1994, after Kim Il-sung died,
Kim Jong-il made weapons of mass destruction his priority.
This policy prioritised nuclear weapons over everything else,
including the people of North Korea.
Kim Jong-un needs something to protect himself
from being overthrown.
You know, they saw Iraq, they saw Libya, they saw that Gaddafi
gave up his weapons and was very ignominiously murdered by his own
people with the support of the West.
Those scenes have to be terrifying to the North Koreans.
I see these nuclear weapons and missiles as a symptom of
how isolated and threatening
and threatened the North Korean government feels.
The North Korean people are really the pawns in this
political game that their regime is playing.
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WATER RUNS
In a way, the scariest parts of North Korea are some of what
they want to show you at these Mass Games and there's 100,000 people
wearing the same kind of clothes and marching in unison.
You see these children who are five, six years old with their Mass Games
cards spelling out propaganda messages in perfect unison.
You've got to think, you know,
how do you get your five-year-old to do that?
You see how much repression there is.
North Korea has basically plagiarised the Christian Bible
and I can see a lot of parallels to the Old Testament.
Kim Il-sung is God and Kim Jong-il is the son of God.
They claim that he was born not in a manger but in a log cabin
on Mount Paektu, which is at the Chinese-North Korean border.
It's said his birth was heralded by a beautiful star
and a double rainbow.
They wanted to keep this powerful imagery for themselves
so the Bible is banned.
DOGS BARK IN DISTANCE
THEY SING:
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THEY CRY
LAUGHTER