Open AccessCommentary: “We Must Be Ready for Revenge”: The Real Value of Childhood in North Korea
Author(s) -
Robert Huish
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
allons-y
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2371-4395
pISSN - 2371-4387
DOI - 10.15273/allons-y.v3i0.10064
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , friendship , duty , value (mathematics) , law , victory , psychology , political science , environmental ethics , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , computer science , machine learning , politics , anthropology
The Korean Children’s Union is not designed to nurture nor to inspire its members through friendship, camaraderie, or duty. It is meant to belittle, to intimidate, and to instill the belief that the supreme leader is all powerful. It rigorously instructs children that to be an individual is meaningless. No child is unique. Each one is just like the other. Replaceable, disposable, and ultimately? Worthless.